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# DStv has built its first dedicated sports package, but Springboks’ games are not included
- URL: https://www.businessbagel.com/dstv-package-overhaul-premium-r799/
- Published: 2026-09-09T03:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-09T05:12:46.000Z
- Description: MultiChoice moves cricket and the Champions League down the price list on 17 September, and leaves Springbok rugby, Formula 1 and the golf majors where they were.
- Author: Christian Maidman
- Tags: Companies, Business Bagel News, #pick

Every price on DStv's new package list is a price somebody already pays. Access, Family and Compact stop existing on 17 September and become Starter, Select and Sports at the rates those subscribers pay today, a new entertainment package called Movies & Series slots in at R500, and nobody's bill goes up. Then you go looking for the Springboks.

## What the Sports package actually carries

Sports is the centrepiece, at R479 a month on satellite and R399 on DStv Stream, which is what Compact costs now. It carries 17 channels: every PSL, Premier League and Champions League match, all the cricket, the Currie Cup, the SA Cup and Varsity Rugby, one United Rugby Championship match a week, cycling and the UFC. Cricket, the Champions League and domestic rugby were Premium-only until this month, so for a household already on Compact that is a straight upgrade at no extra cost.

What it does not carry is everything else. Springbok and international rugby, the remaining United Rugby Championship matches, Formula 1, MotoGP, SuperBikes, the Dakar Rally, the golf majors and tennis all stay in Premium, which MultiChoice still calls its most comprehensive offering. Premium sits at R979 a month on satellite before the access fee, R500 above the package built for sports fans.

## The discount that needs a signature

Premium subscribers get very little else out of the reshuffle, so what they are offered is a price rather than a package. R799 a month with the access fee included, against R1,104 for a decoder customer paying month to month, in exchange for a 24-month contract. Canal+ Africa's Byron du Plessis frames that as a reward for loyal customers willing to commit for a longer period, and says R799 is roughly what Premium with the access fee cost about ten years ago.

Moneyweb points out that the company has run this play before. Price Lock offers have been used to hold down churn, particularly ahead of what had become annual April price rises, and a two-year signature locks today's price in before the next one lands. MultiChoice LicenceCo's Willington Ngwepe says he does not expect the changes to cause much downgrading out of Premium, and that he expects the average subscriber to end up paying about what they pay now.

One package has no successor at all. Compact Plus, at R659 a month on satellite, maps onto nothing in the new line-up, and Moneyweb reports the gap between it and Compact had eroded almost completely. Those subscribers are moved up to Premium at their current price for twelve months, after which they either pay the Premium rate or pick something else.

Nothing changes until 17 September, and existing customers need do nothing. The migrations happen automatically, no price on the list goes up, and the Springboks are still only in the package at the top of it.