From Top Billing possibilities to Netflix deals: A conversation with the woman steering the SABC content strategy

SABC TV boss Lala Tuku passed her high school math by watching William Smith on the public broadcaster.

Tuku, the SABC's head of local content, is currently the SABC's acting head of video entertainment since Merlin Naicker has been suspended due to allegations of irregularity regarding the broadcaster's video streaming service.

As a chorus of criticism continues to grow about the South African public broadcaster's inadequate local content, Lala Tuku is tasked with trying to steer what remains of the SABC's content production capability to create programming that can educate, entertain and inform. And having to do so as the public broadcaster's TV ratings (and in turn its ad income) dwindle.