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Communications minister Solly Malatsi The chair of parliament’s portfolio committee on communications, the ANC’s Khusela Sangoni Diko, is digging in for a fight with communications minister Solly Malatsi over the latter’s decision to withdraw the contentious SABC Bill. Diko said on Sunday that Malatsi’s criticism in an article in the Sunday Times at the weekend […]
Here we are again. The long-running crisis at the SABC is back on the agenda after communications minister Solly Malatsi, withdrew the SABC Bill from parliament in mid-November to first develop a funding model for inclusion. The broadcaster, founded in the 1930s, served as propaganda organ for the apartheid government before being transformed to serve […]
Communications minister Solly Malatsi Communications minister Solly Malatsi has shifted government’s position regarding the shutdown of 2G and 3G mobile networks in South Africa. The previous administration had wanted to impose a deadline on the operators to complete switch-off of these legacy networks, but Malatsi believes it should be left to the companies to decide. […]