Calling it 'despicable', Media Monitoring Africa's William Bird says the government's silence and inaction to bail out the South African public broadcaster looks like 'a direct attempt to crash the SABC'.

William Bird, director at the Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) says the South African government looks like it deliberately wants to "crash the SABC" by doing nothing and saying nothing about the billion rand government bailout that was promised to the public broadcaster but not received while the beleagued SABC is literally on the verge of seizing up and shutting down.

Treasury and the