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Actors and writers ready to drag SABC to court over plans to slash rebroadcast payments

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The SABC relies more and more on rebroadcasts because there is no money for new TV programmes.
The SABC relies more and more on rebroadcasts because there is no money for new TV programmes.
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The debt-ridden SABC now wants to stop paying fees for rebroadcasts, thereby depriving thousands of South African actors and writers of their rightful income for reruns.

According to this shock announcement, the public broadcaster wants to amend the existing agreements around retransmission payments, or royalties, so drastically that actors will earn much less for these broadcasts – and, later, nothing at all.

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