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Homebase TV is a free-to-air satellite TV network based in Cape Town, South Africa (not to be confused with Homebase TV in Ghana ). It is registered as an NPO (Non-profit Organization) and broadcasts programs on spirituality, health, family life and music. Homebase TV is listed as a self-supporting ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Directors
The current directors of Homebase TV, according to the CIPC web site, is Reinhardt Stander (Founding member) an ordained minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church currently serving Tygerberg and Parow SDA churches in the Western Cape, Retha (Woodman) van Zyl, the widow of well known SDA evangelist Mark Woodman, and Mynhard Branders, a Chartered Accountant who is an elder of the Tygerberg SDA church.

Target Audience, Language and Coverage
Homebase TV broadcastings across Africa, Europe, parts of the Middle East and Russia. Approximately 50% of the broadcast content is in Afrikaans, a language spoken in South Africa, with English accounting for the rest. The Afrikaans content is locally produced, with much of the English content being sourced from ASI members in the United States.

Origins
Mark Woodman, the founding member of Homebase Ministries and the leader of Eden Life Ministries passed away on 23rd of June 2010 after being diagnosed with cancer. Homebase TV was established in 2011 after some leadership struggles saw Eden Life Network, the broadcast media leg of Eden Life Ministries, eventually dissolve. Most of the equipment of Eden Life Network was transferred to Homebase TV and some of the leadership of Eden Life Ministry also featured prominently in the new media house.

Associations
Homebase TV is a member of ASI (Adventist-laymen’s Services & Industries) and have been attending the ASI conferences in the US for the last two years to promote the channel and do fundraising. Homebase TV is also a 50% shareholder in Elace Investments, a for-profit company of which Reinhardt Stander is listed as sole director according to the CIPC web site.