e.tv takes the minister of communications to court over SA’s digital TV

Cape Town – e.tv is taking South Africa's minister of communications, Faith Muthambi, to court over the looming switch to digital terrestrial  television (DTT), demanding once again that encryption be installed and made mandatory in the set-top boxes (STBs) which millions of South African TV viewers will have to buy.

The application which e.tv will make on Tuesday in the High Court in Gauteng could once again further delay South Africa's switch to DTT, a process known as digital migration.