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The financial constraints the SABC is facing has made the task of covering the 2019 General Elections extremely challenging: Phathiswa Magopeni. sabcnews saelections

Despite this, she says the Public Broadcaster has managed to navigate through the money constraints and produce over 200 radio and television election related programmes, ensuring the South African public are given comprehensive coverage of our sixth democratic national elections.“We’ve had to think hard about how we allocate our resources which are limited.”

“There were decisions that had to be made, and we had to think about how we navigate our coverage despite the constraints that we have…there were things we can’t do which we had done in the past.” To cater for the fast paced digital world, SABC News also made available election related content on its election and normal website. In keeping with the people centered theme, audiences were engaged on Social Media so that their opinions and thoughts on Election 2019 could be heard.

 

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Are u going to cover Zebediela Makgophong too?

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