Because the disaster attributable to the Division of Commerce, Business and Competitors (DTIC) Movie and TV Incentive deepens, the South African movie and TV business is getting ready for its largest nationwide march on 28 January.
Going down in Cape City and Pretoria, 1000’s of staff are anticipated to show below the banner Save SA movie jobs.
Organisers affirm the January demonstrations might be considerably larger than the February 2025 protest, with wider nationwide participation and unprecedented unity throughout all the business.
Practically a 12 months after the primary protest, adjudication conferences have nonetheless not resumed, approvals stay stalled for nearly two years, and productions proceed to break down — pushing the sector to the brink.
Lots of of thousands and thousands of rands in overseas direct funding (FDI) stay caught as a result of division’s mismanagement.
“The size of this march displays the dimensions of the disaster,” says the Save SA Movie Jobs Coalition.
“That is an business preventing for survival after months of inaction and silence from the DTIC.”
Unprecedented unity
For the primary time, producers, actors, writers, administrators, animators, crew, post-production professionals, brokers, managers and repair companies will march collectively in a coordinated nationwide motion.
“We’re interesting to all residents to hitch the demonstrations to guard the flexibility for South Africans to inform and watch their very own tales,” says the Coalition.
The demonstrations are organised by a rising coalition together with Animation SA (ASA), The South African Guild of Actors (SAGA), Impartial Producers Group (IPO), South African Guild of Editors (SAGE), Private Managers Affiliation (PMA), Impartial Administrators Affiliation Africa (IDAA), South African Performing Artists Managers Affiliation (SAPAMA), Writers Guild of South Africa (WGSA) and the South African Display Federation (SASFED), representing 1000’s of staff throughout the worth chain.
Participation has expanded considerably since February 2025, with confirmed mobilisation from Gauteng, the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and different manufacturing hubs.
The place is the DTIC?
“…the query is the place is the DTIC on this time of disaster ? ” the Coalition asks.
“We is not going to be ignored; the business will communicate with one voice.”
Pressing intervention
Regardless of repeated engagements with the DTIC, there was no significant progress on fixing the motivation system.
The continued paralysis is driving job losses inside and outdoors of the sector, enterprise closures, and the flight of worldwide productions to competitor international locations.
The coalition warns that with out pressing intervention, certainly one of South Africa’s most vital artistic and export industries faces deindustrialisation and the reversal of transformation.
March particulars
28 January 2026: Cape City – Outdoors Parliament
Time: 07:30 – 11:00 am
29 January 2026: Pretoria – DTIC Head Workplace, Sunnyside
Time: 10:00 – 2 pm
Gown Code: Black
