SURVIVOR: NEW SOUTH AFRICA No one can deny that the SABC is a very strong candidate for SURVIVOR: NEW SOUTH AFRICA. Imagine this. In 1994, South Africa decided to host its very own reality show. The essence of the show was that individuals, with absolutely no experience in running a country, were put into groups and left stranded in a brand new country.

The winner would be the group who survived the longest, and who was best able to bluff their way through the humungous task of leading the country into a bright new future.

The groups included Eskom, The Health Department, the SAPS, Home Affairs, The Department of Education, Telkom, SAA, Transnet…….
You probably remember them all.

15 years later, many of these groups are still surviving, not least of them the SABC.

I often marvel at how they excel.

Apart from the fact that they have screened ‘Message in a Bottle’ 3321 times, it takes pure genius to advertise the screening times of the movie immediately after screening it.

Their scheduling of programs over three channels is also exceptional.
It takes pure genius to schedule two different soccer matches simultaneously on two channels, while scheduling a ‘soccer highlights’ package on the third.

Then there is the fact that they managed to accrue almost a billion rand in debt, but even this has no effect on their will to survive.

I am not sure how they will fare when it comes down to the jury though, because on that panel sits Snuki Zikalala, The Tender Committee, Jackie Selebi and Thabo Mbeki,

Kader Khan
Editor
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