ScreenAfrica is carrying the SABC's formal response. It includes:
- claims to have increased the local content budget from R230million to R1.1 billion
- increased the ratios of international to local production from 60:40 to 30:70
- the growth of an independent production sector from 20 companies 2004 to 408 in 2009.
- the introduction of numerous developmental strands to give access to new producers
Here's the kicker though: "To ensure diversification of companies doing business with SABC, the SABC is preferentially procuring in the regions other than Gauteng, Kwa-Zulu Natal and Western Cape."
Wow. So, the SABC is actually preferentially procuring in the Eastern Cape???? They're seeking you out for your untapped stories?? How are they doing that exactly, and to what success? Because it's clearly news to most of the respondees in our surveys so far. We're going to need to hold them to this wild claim. Read the whole response here and let me know what you think.
