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SABC

The SABC Board has announced it will suspend the planned retrenchments of about 400 employees until the end of the year. This will allow for consultations to take place between management and unions on the public broadcaster’s planned restruc-ture. The SABC intends to retrench 400 workers, but from those 170 will be re-employed in a newly structured SABC. The SABC says it is under pressure to save over R700 million in wages each year. In the last financial year, the SABC spent R2.35 billion on salaries and reported a loss of R511m.