Hon Chair, the
question relates to the SABC's capacity to comply with the outstanding preconditions from National Treasury, including the sustainability thereof. In our reply, as the department, we are saying that the outstanding preconditions relate to separate reporting in terms of public commercial services and public broadcasting services, as well as the identification of noncore assets and the public-private partnerships, PPP.
So, the SABC has developed a turnaround strategy with the assistance of the Government Technical Advisory Centre, GTAC, which incorporates a variety of initiatives that will be implemented, in order to address all the governance, operational and financial inefficiencies within the organisation.
In order to ensure that the R2,1 billion allocated to the SABC is utilised for its intended purposes, the SABC's executives will provide the departmental task team with monthly progress reports, with effect from November 2019 on the implementation of the turnaround strategy.
In this process, the SABC will also be required to report on the progress made in addressing the concerns of government with regard to three outstanding preconditions that must be fully complied with by March 2020.
So government is satisfied that the SABC has fully complied, and based on some of those things that I have related to before, the public broadcaster has demonstrated commitment to enhance supply chain management processes, to improve and implement all its turnaround strategies accordingly, but also to deal with issues of consequence management and fully capacitate the organisation with the required skills and competencies.
In addition, the department has also developed a plan to pursue policy and regulatory changes to address market failures that maybe seen as negatively affecting the public broadcaster. So, we are in a way working towards the regulatory framework that needs to be addressed, which can also address the issues that the public broadcaster is concerned with. So far, we are satisfied. Thank you.