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Communications and Digital Technologies
ICASA Council Report: consideration; Communications Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
3 Nov 2015
BRRR 2015-2010: Budgetary Review & Recommendations Reports
The subcommittee deliberated on the challenges regarding some candidates submitted as nominees for councillorship of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa.
The DA objected to two names on that list: Mr Thami Ntenteni and Mr Lumko Mtimde, commenting that the former was ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Committee Report on Filling of Vacancies in ICASA Council
27 Oct 2015
Document handed out: Committee Report on Filling of Vacancies in ICASA Council [Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports once published on the ATC]
The Subcommittee of the Portfolio Committee on Communications met to consider its report on the filling of vacancies in the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) Council. ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
SABC and Brand South Africa on their 2014/15 Annual Reports, with Minister
21 Oct 2015
Brand South Africa (BSA) had three strategic focus areas: a coordinated marketing strategy approach, communication and reputation management. The entity attained 82% of its set targets. The 18% not achieved related to challenges arising because there had not been a smooth transition in replacing the USA country manager resulting in ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
GCIS, ICASA, MDDA, FPB on their 2014/15 Annual Reports; Communication portfolio audit outcomes: Auditor-General briefing
20 Oct 2015
The Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) focused on the scope of the AGSA audits; overall audit outcomes for the Communications portfolio; unauthorised, irregular or fruitless and wasteful expenditure, root causes and recommendations, assessment of assurance providers, and Minister’s commitments to address root causes. The GCIS received an unqualified opinion with ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
State of Community Media: National Association of Broadcasters, Association of Independent Publishers, SA Communications Forum & National Community Radio Forum comment
22 Sep 2015
Four organisations involved in broadcasting and publishing provided the Committee with their views on the state of community media in South Africa.
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) said it had taken 20 years to grow television audiences from 19 million in 1994, to 33 million in 2014. The report ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Portfolio Committee on Communications Annual Performance Plan evaluation
8 Sep 2015
The evaluation of the Portfolio Committee on Communications’ Annual Performance Plan for 2014/15 – 2015/16 was presented by the content advisor. He dealt with only the first part of the evaluation document without going into the specifics of the four programmes, strategic objectives and indicators.
Many members were absent from ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Communications Portfolio Committee Oversight Report
1 Sep 2015
While much of the draft documents were reflective of the observations made during the oversight visits, Members could not agree on the validity of the request made by SABC board member, Krish Naidoo, to institute legal action against the board regarding the illegal dismissal of three members. There were also ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Department of Communications, SABC, ICASA, FPB, MDDA, Brand SA 1st, 2nd, 3rd Quarter 2014/15 performance
17 Aug 2015
The Minister gave her assessment of the performance of the entities of the Department over the first three quarters of the 2014/15 before handing over to the Department and entities themselves to give an account of their performance. She noted that in October 2014, the SABC issued a Request For ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Broadcasting Digital Migration state of readiness: Minister of Communications, Sentech, USAASA & SA Post Office
11 Aug 2015
The Portfolio Committees on Telecommunications and Postal Services, and Communications and the Select Committee on Communications and Public Enterprises had a joint briefing from the Minister of Communications, Sentech, Universal Service Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA) and the South African Post Office (SAPO) on the state of readiness for ...
Communications and Digital Technologies
Minister of Communications on SABC Memorandum of Incorporation & removal of SABC board members
23 Jun 2015
The Committee met with the Minister of Communications to hear the Minister’s response to the parliamentary legal opinion that the procedure followed to remove three SABC board members had been illegal. Minister Muthambi spoke to the separation of powers and the functions and duties of the legislature, executive and judiciary, ...