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Independent Communications Authority of South Africa Act, 2000 (Act No. 13 of 2000)

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ICASA Regulations on Local Television Content

2. Purpose

 

The purpose of these regulations is to develop, protect and promote national and provincial identity, culture and character. In achieving this, these regulations will seek to promote programming which:

(a)        is produced under South African creative control;
(b)        is identifiably South African, and recognises the diversity of all  cultural backgrounds in South African society;
(c)        will develop a television industry which is owned and controlled by South Africans;
(d)        will establish a vibrant, dynamic, creative and economically productive South African film and television industry.