Will you pay your SABC TV licence to watch video streaming services like Netflix?
Updated | By Breakfast with Martin Bester
The SABC is asking for TV licences to access your programming.

One of the benefits of watching Netflix and other streaming services is that you do not need a TV licence or sometimes even a TV!
Deputy Communications Minister Pinky Kekana presented the case to parliament that “the standard definition of a TV license needed to be updated to better fit an environment where more and more people were migrating online for the media consumption.”
Will you pay a TV licence?
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