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DStv's price increases and package updates from April 2025

Written by TVSA Team from the blog DStv on 17 Mar 2025
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This is it TV lovers... that moment when your nervous system has to work too hard because you don't want to see DStv's annual price increase.

MultiChoice has announced the new prices for packages from 1 April 2025 and they're going up twice this year! - once in April, and then again in May when VAT increases by 0.5%.

These are the new prices before the VAT increase, followed by package updates:

Decoder packages
 
Package 2024 2025 Increase Percentage increase
DStv Premium R929 R979 R50 +5.38%
DStv Compact Plus R619 R659 R40 +6.46%
DStv Compact R469 R479 R10 +2.13%
DStv Family R329 R339 R10 +3.03%
DStv Access R139 R150 R11 +7.91%
Access fees R120 R125 R5 +4.1%

Streaming packages
 
Package 2024 2025 Increase Percentage increase
DStv (All packages) - - - No increase
Showmax R99 R99  - No increase
Showmax PL R69 R99 R30 +43.47% (Yoh)
Showmax Entertainment mobile R45 R49 R4 +8.8%
Showmax Entertainment mobile and football R99 R119 R20 +20.20%
Showmax Entertainment and football R140 R149 R9 +6.42%

And the price of one service is decreasing, crazy but true:

Add Movies goes from R79 to R49, a decrease of 37.97%.
 

Extra Streams added

As we mentioned in the TVSA News Shorts, DStv's backtracking on the streaming throttle. Premium, Compact Plus and Compact will each get two streams per account on any device instead of one.
 

Compact scores/Compact Plus loses

In addition to the prices, the satcaster has also announced various additions to some packages and a loss to one.

Here's a rundown:

Compact 

These five channels are being added to Compact from 1 April:

SuperSport Action (channel 210)  
 
Africa Magic Showcase (channel 151) 
 
CBS Justice (channel 170) 
 
Curiosity Channel (channel 185)  
  
History Channel (channel 186) 

In addition to the above, Compact subscribers are also getting a discount on Showmax, paying R59 instead of R99 per month. 
 

Family

Gets the addition of these three channels:

Comedy Central (122) 

HGTV (177)

Disney Channel (303) 
 

Access

Gets these two:

Zee World (166) 

Nicktoons (308)
 

EasyView

Gets one:


SuperSport Schools (216)
 

The Biggest Loser

Goes to... Compact Plus, which loses 1Max and receives no new channels in its place despite new channels being added to every package except Premium which already has them all, minus BBC-UKTV.

Not that 1Max is a loss considering how rando it is, but now Compact Plus has no replacement for the defunct 1Magic.

It's also subject to the biggest percentage price increase across decoder packages after Access.
 

Price lock

As you may know, you can price lock your account at a discount for the next two years - we've just received an e-mail about it and presume they'll be going big on promoting this now.

Hopefully they don't get Somizi in as a brand ambassador for it. Probably not. He's too yesterday isn't he?

 



2 Comments

Insidus
17 Mar 2025 19:07

Dstv Family gets 3 channels actually HGTV is the missing link in the article kind of surprised about family's additions weren't these suppose to be premium tailored channels.

TVSA Team
17 Mar 2025 19:14

Thanks Insidus - we missed that - added. 


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