THE South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will no longer feed South Africans with a steady diet of old programmes and repeats during the second quarter of this financial year.

The announcement was made by communications minister, Faith Muthambi, while delivering the Department’s Budget Vote, in Parliament, on Friday.

“We are pleased to announce that during the second quarter of this financial year, the SABC will cease to flight international content repeats. This will be replaced by South African content, where South Africans will be telling their own stories in their own languages,” she said.

Minister Muthambi said the SABC remains South Africa’s most accessible broadcaster and therefore government must continue to support it to discharge its public broadcasting service mandate.

The SABC has been allocated R182.2-million to fund the operations of Channel Africa, its capital infrastructure programme, community radio stations and programme production.