TechCentralTechCentral
    Facebook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn YouTube
    TechCentral TechCentral
    NEWSLETTER
    • News

      E.tv in stunning victory over minister in digital TV fight

      28 June 2022

      It’s official: stage-6 load shedding is here

      28 June 2022

      Stage-6 load shedding highly likely later today

      28 June 2022

      Prosus sale plan sends Chinese tech stocks tumbling

      28 June 2022

      Takealot is ready for the Amazon onslaught: Bob van Dijk

      27 June 2022
    • World

      Ether holds its breath for the Merge

      28 June 2022

      Google Cloud customers will learn their Gmail carbon footprint

      28 June 2022

      The lights are going out for crypto’s laser-eyed grifters

      28 June 2022

      Crypto retakes $1-trillion

      27 June 2022

      Tencent slides on Prosus sale plan

      27 June 2022
    • In-depth

      The great crypto crash: the fallout, and what happens next

      22 June 2022

      Goodbye, Internet Explorer – you really won’t be missed

      19 June 2022

      Oracle’s database dominance threatened by rise of cloud-first rivals

      13 June 2022

      Everything Apple announced at WWDC – in less than 500 words

      7 June 2022

      Sheryl Sandberg’s ad empire leaves a complicated legacy

      2 June 2022
    • Podcasts

      How your organisation can triage its information security risk

      22 June 2022

      Everything PC S01E06 – ‘Apple Silicon’

      15 June 2022

      The youth might just save us

      15 June 2022

      Everything PC S01E05 – ‘Nvidia: The Green Goblin’

      8 June 2022

      Everything PC S01E04 – ‘The story of Intel – part 2’

      1 June 2022
    • Opinion

      Has South Africa’s advertising industry lost its way?

      21 June 2022

      Rob Lith: What Icasa’s spectrum auction means for SA companies

      13 June 2022

      A proposed solution to crypto’s stablecoin problem

      19 May 2022

      From spectrum to roads, why fixing SA’s problems is an uphill battle

      19 April 2022

      How AI is being deployed in the fight against cybercriminals

      8 April 2022
    • Company Hubs
      • 1-grid
      • Altron Document Solutions
      • Amplitude
      • Atvance Intellect
      • Axiz
      • BOATech
      • CallMiner
      • Digital Generation
      • E4
      • ESET
      • Euphoria Telecom
      • IBM
      • Kyocera Document Solutions
      • Microsoft
      • Nutanix
      • One Trust
      • Pinnacle
      • Skybox Security
      • SkyWire
      • Tarsus on Demand
      • Videri Digital
      • Zendesk
    • Sections
      • Banking
      • Broadcasting and Media
      • Cloud computing
      • Consumer electronics
      • Cryptocurrencies
      • Education and skills
      • Energy
      • Fintech
      • Information security
      • Internet and connectivity
      • Internet of Things
      • Investment
      • IT services
      • Motoring and transport
      • Public sector
      • Science
      • Social media
      • Talent and leadership
      • Telecoms
    • Advertise
    TechCentralTechCentral
    Home»News»Now Icasa to report to Muthambi and Cwele

    Now Icasa to report to Muthambi and Cwele

    News By Duncan McLeod3 December 2014
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp Telegram Email
    Jacob Zuma
    Jacob Zuma

    President Jacob Zuma has acted to resolve an apparent turf war between his communications minister, Faith Muthambi, and her counterpart at telecommunications and postal services, Siyabonga Cwele, by setting out in greater detail who is responsible for what in a new proclamation published in the Government Gazette.

    TechCentral first reported last week that Zuma was going to publish the proclamation, giving Muthambi responsibility for South Africa’s digital terrestrial television migration project.

    The proclamation transfers the administration of and powers and functions in both the Icasa Act, which governs communications regulator Icasa, and the Electronic Communications Act, which is the overarching convergence legislation for the information and communications technology sector.

    It’s the second such proclamation Zuma has signed since his controversial decision, taken after the May general election, to split the old department of communications in two, creating a new communications department and the telecoms & postal services department.

    Analysts lashed Zuma for his decision, saying it flew in the face of convergence between industries.

    Zuma had decided previously that Icasa would report into the new ministry of communications, but has now backtracked, handing telecoms and postal services some of the oversight responsibilities.

    Faith Muthambi looks set to run South Africa's digital migration project
    Faith Muthambi looks set to run South Africa’s digital migration project

    In terms of the new proclamation, Icasa will now report to both ministers. Muthambi will, however, have responsibility to any future amendments to the Icasa Act.

    In addition, the changes appear to signal that Muthambi will take control of South Africa’s digital migration project.

    Some responsibilities, such as sign-off of Icasa’s annual report, will be the responsibility of both ministers.

    The president’s proclamation also clearly separates the two ministers’ broadcasting and telecoms responsibilities as far as they pertain to the Electronic Communications Act.

    Muthambi, for example, will have responsibility for the entirety of section 9 of the act, which deals with broadcasting.

    Zuma signed the new proclamation of 25 November and it’s published in volume 594 of the Government Gazette, which is dated 2 December 2014.  — (c) 2014 NewsCentral Media

    Faith Muthambi Icasa Jacob Zuma Siyabonga Cwele
    Share. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp Telegram Email
    Previous ArticleSABC chair no-show at inquiry
    Next Article UK faces its own fixed-line challenges

    Related Posts

    E.tv in stunning victory over minister in digital TV fight

    28 June 2022

    It’s official: stage-6 load shedding is here

    28 June 2022

    Stage-6 load shedding highly likely later today

    28 June 2022
    Add A Comment

    Comments are closed.

    Promoted

    How your business can help hybrid workers effectively

    28 June 2022

    Hands off our satellite spectrum!

    27 June 2022

    Watch | Telviva One: adapting to the requirements of business

    24 June 2022
    Opinion

    Has South Africa’s advertising industry lost its way?

    21 June 2022

    Rob Lith: What Icasa’s spectrum auction means for SA companies

    13 June 2022

    A proposed solution to crypto’s stablecoin problem

    19 May 2022

    Subscribe to Updates

    Get the best South African technology news and analysis delivered to your e-mail inbox every morning.

    © 2009 - 2022 NewsCentral Media

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.