MultiChoice will shut down Showmax on Thursday, 30 April 2026, ending a service once positioned as the South African pay-TV giant’s answer to Netflix. MultiChoice announced the plan to shut down ...

MultiChoice has announced that it will shut down Showmax, ending the streaming platform that was once positioned as the centrepiece of its growth strategy in Africa. The Showmax board made the ...

MultiChoice has confirmed it will discontinue its Showmax streaming service following what the company described as a comprehensive review of its streaming operations. In a statement yesterday, the ...

In an email sent to subscribers on March 5, 2026, Showmax stated that after a review, the board took the decision to discontinue the streaming service product in the near future. The decision, they ...

Showmax subscribers were sent an email on Thursday morning that outlines the plan for the homegrown streaming platform’s shuttering. Most notably, Showmax has said that its content will be moving to ...

Showmax is set to be shuttered at the end of this month and in its place, locals will need to turn to DStv Stream if they want to stream local content on demand. While not a perfect streaming platform ...

But the group, 70 percent owned by South African pay-TV giant MultiChoice and 30 percent by Comcast's NBCUniversal, had forecast a bigger loss and grew its revenue 22 percent. By Georg Szalai Global ...

A number of companies, including Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, are competing for supremacy in the video streaming services market around the world. In Africa's video streaming service market, it has ...