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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

7. Independent Television Production

 

(1) Public, commercial, community , and subscription television broadcasting licensees. must ensure that a minimum of 40% .of their localtelevision content programming consists of programmes which are independent television productions and the independent television productions are spread evenly between, South African arts programming, South African drama, South African documentary, South African knowledge-building, South African children's and South African educational programming.

 

(2) A public, commercial and subscription television broadcasting licensee must ensure after twenty-four (24) months of the gazetting of these regulations or such longer period as the Authority may determine, that fifty percent (50°;] of annual independently produced programmes budget is spent on previously marginalised local African languages and/or programmes commissioned from regions outside the Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg Metropolitan cities.