Digital migration expert and former ministerial technical adviser Roy Kruger says the final changes to the broadcasting digital migration policy, published on Wednesday, entrench the dominance of pay-television provider MultiChoice and short-change South Africans in
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The final broadcast digital migration policy will be published in the Government Gazette next week, the communications department said on Monday. “The new policy seeks to clarify the use of a control system
A joint sitting in parliament on digital migration was packed to the rafters this morning. But the stars of the show, communications minister Faith Muthambi and telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele, failed to appear. Their deputies
Members of the Communication Workers Union employed by the Post Office have embarked on a go-slow, effective Thursday, over grievances, with the union warning that a full-blown strike may be on the cards at the embattled state-owned company. If workers
The South African Post Office will review its business operating models, according to the 2015/2016 budget documents tabled in parliament on Wednesday. Its focus over the medium term was
Parliament’s communications portfolio committee on Tuesday said it was satisfied with the stricken South African Post Office’s progress towards stability. In a statement issued following
The South African Post Office expects to report a loss of R1,3bn by the end of its financial year in March, it was reported on Monday. For this and other reason auditors expressed doubts, in the Post Office’s 2014-2015
IT technician Obakeng Israel Busang on Tuesday denied involvement in defrauding the Post Office and the Gautrain Management Agency (GMA). “I intend pleading not guilty as I did not commit the offences, did not defraud or worked with anyone in order to do so,” NB Kwinana, for Busang, read
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
The strike at the South Africa Post Office has been suspended, the Communication Workers Union announced on Tuesday. “Over the past weekend, CWU engaged with workers through our regional and local leadership with workers