UK’s move over streaming levies will be music to Malatsi’s ears

When communications & digital applied sciences minister Solly Malatsi first introduced that he was contemplating introducing a “streaming levy” to tax streaming companies for working in SA to fund the seemingly at all times struggling SABC, many commentators and middle-class South Africans have been outraged.

Although the levy has but to be handed into regulation, the concept those that way back opted for the comfort and higher-quality choices of streaming companies ought to nonetheless have something to do with the SABC was anathema in an age wherein client alternative talks and the SABC and its TV licence may take a hike so far as they have been involved…