Browsing: Jacob Zuma

Icasa hopeful an ex-convict

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Thami Ntenteni’s appointment to the board of the Media Development and Diversity Agency last week may be unlawful, Democratic Alliance MP Gavin Davis has said. This is because Ntenteni

Opposition parties slam SABC appointments

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Opposition parties came out against President Jacob Zuma’s appointment of Mbulaheni Maguvhe as SABC chairman and Leah Khumalo his deputy. The Congress of People (Cope) has the dubbed the two “praise singers”. “Luthuli House will in effect

SA misses more than digital TV deadline

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More than a decade after South Africa started preparing to switch off analogue terrestrial television, the deadline government agreed to with other nations to end the broadcasts has not been met. This Wednesday, 17 June, marks the date that

A year on, the telecoms minister has achieved little

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It’s been a year since President Jacob Zuma shocked South Africa’s communications technology industry by announced he was splitting the department of communications in two, creating a new department of communications and, reversing the trend of

Koos Bekker knew minister would be axed: claim

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Naspers chairman Koos Bekker said months before Yunus Carrim was fired as communications minister that he would not be reappointed to the job. This startling allegation is contained in a report by the Mail & Guardian on Friday, in which

Parliament’s TV policy questioned in court

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Media houses and other parties are asking the Western Cape high court to find that a clause in parliament’s broadcasting policy is unconstitutional and invalid because it does not allow the public to view all activities on the floor. Steven Budlender, for the applicants

Crises tearing the Post Office apart

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South Africa’s failing Post Office has lurched from crisis to crisis in recent years – and there appears to be no end in sight to the malaise. A much-vaunted turnaround strategy, which was supposed to be