Complaint that the broadcasting of cultural bare-breasted nudity is unsuitable/harmful to children, offensive to sensitive viewers and should either be blurred out or shown after the watershed time.   CLICK TO VIEW FULL ADJUDICATION TION

Complaint that debate programme presented an alleged one-sided view by not inviting panellists and audience members who represented all parties involved. CLICK TO VIEW FULL ADJUDICATION

A complaint concerning an episode of Survivor’s Remorse during which offensive language was used. The specific episode was broadcast on SABC3 at 19:30.  CLICK TO VIEW FULL ADJUDICATION

A complaint was lodged with the registrar of the BCCSA against the Respondent for its broadcast of 10 March 2019. The broadcast pertained to allegations of racism against black people in the context of credit granting for low cost housing. The programme in question is a current affairs investigative programme designed to investigate and expose social [...]

Material broadcast before the watershed period, considered harmful to children. The complainant alleges that the movie Double Echo, was accompanied by scenes featuring sex and nudity, although it was not depicted in the warning sign. CLICK TO VIEW FULL JUDGMENT     

Several complaints were lodged with the Registrar of the BCCSA after scenes were shown in subsequent episodes of the soapie Isidingo in which two White farmers insulted, assaulted and buried a Black man who came to pay his respects at his father’s grave on the White men’s farm. Various complaints have been received regarding incitement [...]

Ms. Diale, the appellant in this matter, appealed against a sanction of a reprimand imposed by the adjudicator on the SABC for the contravention of clause 15(1) dealing with privacy. She argued that a reprimand was not proportional to the emotional harm and verbal abuse she suffered from some SABC3 fans of Isidingo as a [...]

Complaints that biased and incorrect views were broadcast by the Respondent in regard to the Israel-Gaza conflict were not upheld on the ground that a contrary view by the Israeli Ambassador and a representative from the Jewish Board of Deputies was also broadcast. In any case, where foreign matters are broadcast, the higher level of [...]

An age advisory was not added to a music video broadcast at 09:55 on a Saturday in January 2014. The SABC conceded that an age advisory of PG 10 should have been provided at the commencement of the programme for ninety seconds as prescribed. The SABC, however, argued extenuating circumstances relating to the absence of [...]

A film contained a scene where a young lady, in a dream, saw Jesus coming off the Cross and making sexual suggestions to her. Scene saved by the fact that it did not amount to hate speech based on religion. Complaint not upheld. [2015] JOL 33178 (BCCSA) CLICK TO VIEW FULL JUDGMENT [...]