SABC responds to TVEIC

Also on ScreenAfrica is the SABC's formal response to the Memorandum of Demands presented to it by the TV Industry Emergency Coalition (TVIEC) at the national protest action on 4 June

Amongst the claims of support for the Local Industry, SABC claims to have increased the local content budget from R230million to R1.1 billion, and increased the ratios of international to local production from 60:40 to 30:70. It also claims a role in the growth of an independent production sector from 20 companies 2004 to 408 in 2009.



Here's the kicker though: "To ensure diversification of companies doing business with SABC, the SABC is preferentially procuring in the regions other than Gauteng, Kwa-Zulu Natal and Western Cape."

Wow. So they are diverting commission AWAY from KZN?? Wouldn't that kind of assume that KZN was receiving a bumper crop of productions in the first place???? Read the whole response here and let me know what you think.