Browsing: Jacob Zuma

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

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

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

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

The department of trade and industry has plugged nearly R2m worth of advertising into The New Age newspaper – owned by the pro-ANC Gupta family – in the last three financial years. During the same period, the department of rural development and land

President Jacob Zuma is trying to resolve issues with the SABC board, his office said on Monday. “The president, who appoints members of the SABC board on the advice of the national assembly