The Save Our SABC Coalition said on Thursday making the broadcaster a chapter nine institution would protect it from government interference.

The coalition proposed de-corporatizing the institution, saying it needed to stop behaving like a commercial broadcaster.

The coalition welcomed the Treasury’s decision to give the SABC R1.4bn to get it through its financial troubles.

“I think it is important that we realise the SABC operates as a public service broadcaster and not as a pseudo-commercial broadcaster with some sort of a public mandate,” said the coalition’s William Bird.