Next year was meant to be a big one for South Africa’s technology industry. Years ago, under the Mbeki administration, the government agreed with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that the country would switch off analogue terrestrial television broadcasts by 17 June 2015. Countries
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President Jacob Zuma will consider a request by national assembly speaker Baleka Mbete that SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala be suspended, the presidency said on Saturday. Spokesman Mac Maharaj said in a statement that Mbete had asked Zuma to consider suspending Tshabalala following the
The clock of South Africa’s progress towards a knowledge-based economy has been turned back by at least a decade through two recent presidential proclamations. This has negative implications for our economic growth and inclusion of all our citizens in the interconnected world. It will cost us investment
Parliament’s communications portfolio committee on Wednesday unanimously resolved to call for SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala’s removal from office. An inquiry by the committee into whether Tshabalala lied about her academic qualifications found her guilty on two charges of misconduct. “We recommend the
Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn has accused President Jacob Zuma of decision making that is “beyond logic” after the publication on Wednesday of a proclamation in the Government Gazette meant to provide clarity about the responsibilities of his communications and telecommunications
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
South Africa’s largest opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has given failing grades to the new ministers of communications and of telecommunications and postal services Faith Muthambi and Siyabonga Cwele in its annual report card of cabinet ministers. Cwele received 4/10 in the DA’s assessment
Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications has written a memorandum to the speaker of the national assembly asking for the immediate suspension of SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala. “This follows a second unanimous agreement among committee members that Tshabalala be suspended
An investigation has found nothing wrong with Thuthukile Zuma’s appointment to a top ministry job, despite a previous report condemning these sorts of appointments. It was reported in July that Thuthukile Zuma, President Jacob Zuma’s daughter, was appointed as chief of staff
A full six months after President Jacob Zuma announced he would split the department of communications in two, his office appears set to issue a new proclamation to determine the transfer of functions between the new departments of communications and telecommunications