SABC 3 is a commercial South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) television channel that carries programming in English and, as of April 2009, Afrikaans.It was created in 1996, after the SABC restructured its television channels. It inherited many of its programs from TV1, South Africa's apartheid-era "white" channel. SABC 3 is targeted at South Africa's affluent English-speaking community; the channel's primary target market is viewers aged 18 to 49.