Strict security at the South African Broadcasting Corporation before the country’s 2004 national elections. EPA/Jon HrusaThe Chief Operating Officer of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Hlaudi Motsoeneng, announced early in May 2016 that 80% of all films broadcast on one of the public broadcaster’s channels, SABC 3, will from July be locally made. It was welcomed by producers in the television industry, but cautiously so. The Conversation Africa’s arts & culture editor, Charles Leonard, asked Jared Borkum, who teaches film and television at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, how practical Motsoeneng’s edict is.
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