Communications Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has committed to the complete switch-off of analogue television by the end of March next year.
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the deadline in his State of the Nation Address in February.
The long-delayed process of migrating from analogue to digital television led to South Africa missing an internationally imposed deadline of June 2015.
Ntshavhnei said that Cabinet had approved a revised plan to complete the task, which would free up much-needed spectrum.
In the seven years since the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) June 2015 deadline, just over half a million households have been supplied with set-top boxes.
That’s out of an estimated 3.8 million households who qualify (with an income of up to R3,500 a month). Of these, only 1.8 million households have registered to be migrated.
Communications Minister Ntshavheni said that the switch-off “is non-negotiable”.