Apply In-Person:

1. To transfer or change of ownership of a Television license in person, the applicant must visit any nearest Post Office or a retailer authorised to issue TV licences in his/her province.
2. The contacts and address information of the South African Broadcasting Corporation can be found in the following link: Link
3. Contact the SABC and collect details about the office of any SABC office or post office that issues a TV license and also enquire the requirements.
4. Visit the office as instructed by the SABC or any nearest Post Office and obtain the form (if any) to transfer or change of ownership of a Television License.
5. Complete the application form as required with necessary and relevant information.
6. Make sure that you have all the required documents listed in the “Required documents” section of this page. Attach them with the completed application.
7. Pay the required amount of fees as directed. Then, submit it to the concerned official at the Office for further verification and application processing.
8. After all the processes are completed, you will served as per your requirement.

• Identity Document of the applicant
• Passport (Identity proof) of the applicant
• Identity Document of the applicant’s spouse
• Passport (Identity proof) of the applicant’s spouse
• Television license document

South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) - Head Office
Physical Adsress:cnr Henley and Artilery Road,
2006, South Africa
Postal Adsress:Private Bag X1,
AUCKLAND PARK,
2006
South Africa
Tel: 011 714 9111
Fax: 011 714 4869
PROGRAMME PURCHASES Email:contentsales@sabc.co.za
TV LICENSE Email: tvlic.info@sabc.co.za
SABC SPORT Email: sport@sabc.co.za
WORK AT SABC Email: HRSharedServices@sabc.co.za
ADVERTISE ON SABC Email: sabcsales@sabc.co.za
SABC EDUCATION Email: education@sabc.co.za
Website link

• Any person, who possesses a Television license and wishes to change or transfer the ownership of the license, can apply.
• The person to whom he/she transfers the television license must be his/her spouse or life partner in a permanent relationship and both of them should be sharing the residence.

Please approach the officers at the SABC office for fees details.

Explain the time until which the certificate/document is valid.
e.g. Birth Certificate Valid Forever

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Please explain processing time taken in obtaining the document/certificate.

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications.
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type='website'>video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
Please remove the '&' inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver,
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M' Video ID is 'Y0US7oR_t3M'.

Please provide other instructions related to the certificate/documents.
e.g. The state office holds birth records since january 1908.

• Particulars of the applicant
• Particulars of the spouse or life partner
• License number
• Identification document number

The process is required when the spouse or life partner needs to acquire the ownership of the license on the account of death of the License holder.

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Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

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