Urgent measures will be introduced to turn around South Africa’s information and communication sector, newly appointed communications minister Yunus Carrim said on Wednesday. Speaking after being sworn in in Pretoria, he said the performance and management of state entities, particularly the
Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn says fired communications minister Dina Pule won’t be missed by the technology sector, but the communist sympathies of her successor, Yunus Carrim, could prove problematic in a sector that thrives on openness and liberalisation. It could
Television licence fees will rise in September, the SABC said on Tuesday. “The annual fee for a domestic, business, dealer and lessor licence will increase by R15 from R250 to R265,” spokesman Kaizer Kganyago said in a statement. “This equals an increase of only R1,25/month
Zambia’s telecommunications regulator, Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (Zicta), has laid criminal charges against all three of the country’s mobile network operators for “failure to meet minimum standards of quality of service”. The operators are MTN, Airtel
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Two broadcasters, both perceived to be sympathetic to president Jacob Zuma and his government, are set to launch 24-hour news satellite channels on the same continent-wide MultiChoice DStv platform. Broadcasting sources confirmed to the Mail & Guardian this week that the SABC is back in discussions
Sentech has shut down the signals that allowed people in South Africa’s neigbouring countries to receive free-to-air broadcasts from the SABC and e.tv using a range of cheap, imported decoders. The decoders were able to pick up Sentech’s satellite broadcasts from its Vivid service because the signals were
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Free-to-air broadcasters SABC and e.tv are up in arms after an audit found the viewership figures provided by the South African Audience Research Foundation (Saarf) in recent years were allegedly inaccurate. The broadcasters claim this has cost them hundreds of millions of rand in lost advertising
The SABC has filled six vacancies in its executive management, the public broadcaster said on Thursday. “It has become imperative for the organisation, as it is steadily becoming financially stable, to complement this with individuals who will bring immense value as we take the SABC forward,” spokesman
