A license is required to purchase a television set.
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4 Responses to “A license is required to purchase a television set.”
Comment from Sane Person
Time August 26, 2011 at 10:35 pm
This is a very sensible law. Has this website done any research? You need a television licence to get a television. It means less adverts. It’s not stupid.
Comment from Duncan
Time October 7, 2011 at 7:27 am
No Sane Person…it does not mean fewer adverts. It means more money to squander by inept officials on stupid ideas and creating horrible programs
Comment from Francois Botha
Time February 12, 2011 at 11:42 pm
The income from the licences are used to fund the public broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
By law, if you own a television set (whether you watch SABC or not), you have to own a TV licence.
Because it’s impossible to allow terrestrial broadcasting only to licence holders, the only way to ensure it is to prove it upon buying a television set.