Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has threatened to withdraw financial assistance to the SABC after she took umbrage at its criticism of her decision to switch off analogue television broadcasts on 31 March.
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Despite intense pressure from broadcasters, communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni appears adamant that analogue TV will be switched off this week.
The SABC board on Friday labelled government’s plan to switch off analogue television broadcasts on 31 March as an “unsustainable risk” to the rights of millions of indigent South African households.
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse said the state-owned company is trying to ram through a “massive” contract for set-top box installations. Sentech has denied the allegations.
Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has notched up a couple of successes on her watch. But the communications minister now risks making a hash of things.
Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said every South African learner will get a free, government-supplied e-mail address, with the project to kick off later this year.
The auction of mobile broadband spectrum will continue into next week after already raising more than the R8-billion expected.
The cabinet has decided to scrap government plans to license a wholesale open-access network in South Africa.
Telkom has asked the high court in Pretoria to impose a “structural or supervisory” interdict on communications regulator Icasa over spectrum licensing.
Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has proclaimed 31 March as the date that South Africa will switch off analogue television broadcasts.