In a summary of its submission on planned legislative changes in the broadcasting space seen by TechCentral, the SABC said the current TV licence fee system should be scrapped and replaced with a device-independent, tech-neutral household levy for public broadcasting, which would levy all households, with an exemption for the poor and discounts for pensioners.

The public broadcaster said the levy is linked to the public’s ability to access public broadcasting content rather than on the consumption of that content.

As a pro-competitive measure, DStv parent MultiChoice Group should be required to collect the public broadcasting household levy from its subscribers, the SABC said in its submission.

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