He received the committee’s approval to postpone the deadline to 31 March 2025. However, that target was also suspended a few days before it was due.

This followed eMedia, Media Monitoring Africa, and the SOS Coalition launching legal action to block the analogue switch-off.

The parties again argued that lower-income households would lose access to critical information when the signals were switched off, due to delays in distributing state-subsidised STBs.

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