| (a) | serves to safeguard, enrich and strengthen the cultural, political, social and economic fabric of South Africa; |
| (b) | operates in the public interest and strengthens the spiritual and moral fibre of society; |
| (c) | ensures that the broadcasting system is controlled by persons or groups of persons from a diverse range of communities in South Africa and within each element promotes ownership, control and management of broadcasting services by persons from historically disadvantaged groups; |
| (d) | encourages fair competition in the provision of programmes and services |
| (2) | Subject to subsection (1), the Minister is ultimately responsible to develop policy that is required from time to time. |
| (3) | Public and commercial broadcasting services must comply with international technical standards and the broadcasting system must be readily adaptable to scientific and technological advances. |
| (4) | The broadcasting system, as a whole, must provide educational programming, and where such programming is provided by a dedicated education service, must be extended throughout the Republic within the financial resources. |
| (5) | The programming provided by the South African broadcasting system must— |
| (a) | be varied and comprehensive, providing a balance of information, education and entertainment meeting the broadcasting needs of the entire South African population in terms of age, race, gender, religion, interests and backgrounds; |
[Section 3(5)(a) substituted by section 3(a) of Act No. 64 of 2002, GG 24340, dated 4 February 2003]
| (b) | be varied and offer a range of South African content and analysis from a South African perspective; |
| (c) | must be drawn from local, regional, national and international sources; |
| (d) | provide a reasonable, balanced opportunity for the public to receive a variety of points of view on matters of public concern; |
| (e) | provide a significant place for programmes produced by the independent production sector; |
[Section 3(5)(f) substituted by item 3 of the Schedule, section 97 of Act No. 36 of 2005, GG 28743, dated 18 April 2006]
| (6) | A range of programming in the Republic's official languages must be extended to all South Africans as circumstances permit. |
| (7) | human resources development strategy for the broadcasting sector must be viewed holistically in terms of qualification standards, skills development, teaching, inter-relationships with the complementary sectors and the funding of the training system. |
