18 July 2007

SABC goes international

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- Snuki Zikalala attends the media on the SABC wage negotiations with the unions. Pic Martin Rhodes. 26/06/2006. © Business Day.

- Dali Mpofu addresses the staff and media on the SABC wage negotiations with the unions. Pic Martin Rhodes. 26/06/2006. © Business Day.

- Snuki Zikalala. Pic Martin Rhodes. 26/06/2006. © Business Day.\n\nBUSINESS DAY WEEKENDER. 14 Oct 2006, pg 6\nZero-rated. Snuki Zikalala\n\nNO IDEA: Snuki Zikalala maintains Dali Mpofu is his boss. The Weekender. 19/04/2008. Pg 2.\n\nFM 11/7/2008 PG 26\nWINNERS & LOSERS\nWINNER: \nSnuki Zikalala. Only Zikalala would be able to pull off having his suspension lifted and obtaining two weeks' leave while the circus between SABC CEO Dali Mpofu and the board continues without a solution in sight. BD 30/04/2009, pg 12. Third Umpire. OUT

- Dali Mpofu addresses the staff and media on the SABC wage negotiations with the unions. Pic Martin Rhodes. 26/06/2006. © Business Day.

- Snuki Zikalala attends the media on the SABC wage negotiations with the unions. Pic Martin Rhodes. 26/06/2006. © Business Day. FM 13/4/07. PG 28. Snuki Zikalala. Snuki Zikalala. Sunday World. 06/01/2008. Pg 16

- Dali Mpofu addresses the staff and media on the SABC wage negotiations with the unions. Pic Martin Rhodes. 26/06/2006. © Business Day.

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Zenoyise Madikwa

SABC will launch its News International, Africa's first news channel on Friday.

SABC News International is a channel with a pan-African focus and reach aimed at providing an African perspective on domestic and international stories.

The channel went on air for the first time at 6pm on June 7, "as a soft launch to test the reception in the market".

The launch included live feeds from SABC's international bureaus in Kenya, DRC, Washington, Brussels, New York, Senegal and Nigeria.

Snuki Zikalala, SABC group executive for news and current affairs, says "with the establishment of SABC news bureaus in Africa and overseas, the broadcaster aims to deliver news from an African perspective - which will form part of a broader and long-term plan of selling content to other broadcasters in Africa and beyond".

The SABC said in a statement that initially, the News International channel will be broadcast via Sentech's Vivid Satellite Digital Decoder, which currently broadcasts to sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Europe.

In addition to news bulletins, the channel will feature current affairs and investigative programmes, including news magazine shows, which will incorporate weather, sports, economic news and studio interviews.

The statement added that the channel will also include French news bulletins, which are currently broadcast live on the SABC News website.

SABC News International will replace the SABC Africa overnight feed on SABC2.

The statement added that SABC News International will initially broadcast only on weekdays.

But from April next year the channel will have a 24-hour schedule.