Ntshavheni: Registrations for digital migration remain low
The analogue switch-off date is around the corner and Minister of Communications Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says registrations for digital migration are low.
"I think we have between March and now we have got a total of 40 000 additional registrations.
"There have been those who claim that if we switch off, there would be a surge in terms of people who come out and say we need assistance."
Analogue TV transmitters will be switched off on the 30 June.
Ntshavheni says in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape some areas are inaccessible for the installation of dishes.
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"The teams are walking. They walk distances of 10km carrying a dish and carrying gadgets to go an install and carrying a ladder.
"In Tabankulu in Alfred Nzo in the Eastern Cape there is a river that nobody can cross, there is no way we can access that river.
"There are households that have applied that we are sitting with a number in those villages, there is no magic we can do, we will not blow a whistle and a bridge will be be put over."
