Last week Friday the switch off from the Analogue to digital broadcasting in South Africa. However, the roll out was not in the entire country, this was only first phase of South Africa’s transition towards digital terrestrial television (DTT)in the Northern Cape area. Residents living in the SKA community of Keimoes and Kai Garib in Northern Cape were the first people in South Africa to experience DTT in the country. However, despite the fact that South Africa didn’t make the 2015 deadline there are still challenges, amongst others, such as the tender process by which set-top boxes or decoders to handed out by government to households. To look at the subject, we spoke to Tshidiso Reditabo, from SABC’S technology department.
