Industry experts warn that Usaasa’s dysfunction has failed the rural South African communities it was meant to benefit.
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Usaasa has published a draft manual for how South Africa’s Universal Service Fund should be administered and spent.
MPs have questioned the viability of Broadband Infraco as it pushes to win back business and secure government guarantees.
The communications minister has replaced four board members of Usaasa, the agency tasked with narrowing the digital divide.
Exclusive | Unpaid contractors, missing stock and poor project management: South Africa’s set-top box project is in crisis.
Sentech must install 220 000 set-top boxes by 31 March to meet the analogue television switch-off deadline.
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has fired two members of the board of state-owned telecoms agency Usaasa.
The high court has delivered a damning judgment against Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, who had sought to shield Lumko Mtimde, the former CEO of Usaasa, from disciplinary action and dismissal.
I let out a cynical laugh while watching President Cyril Ramaphosa deliver his state of the nation address in parliament on Thursday evening. By Duncan McLeod.
Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams said on Tuesday that government is pressing ahead with a plan to merge state-owned enterprises Broadband Infraco and Sentech to form a state infrastructure company.