Online content in South Africa could be regulated by the Press Council rather than the Film and Publication Board, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The FPB earlier
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State-owned fibre-optic telecommunications infrastructure provider Broadband Infraco has been directed by government to undertake a valuation exercise in preparation for its possible sale, the department
The national assembly has withdrawn the nomination of eight candidates for the council of communications regulator Icasa after allegations surfaced that one of the candidates is an ex-convict
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 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
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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
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
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
On 20 May, communications minister Faith Muthambi will deliver her second budget vote speech. Those expecting her to roll over and play dead in the light of the controversy that has dogged her