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Telecommunications and Postal Services
Status Update on SASSA Readiness: SAPO briefing; SAPO Turnaround, with Minister
20 Mar 2018
The Committee heard a status update from SAPO on its SASSA Readiness and a briefing on SAPO going forward.
SAPO: Status Update on SASSA Readiness
The Committee was concerned about the delay in the issuing of a banking license to the Post Bank. What. What were the Department’s concerns ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
ICT SMME Development Strategy implementation; Cost to Communicate update, with Minister and Deputy Minister
13 Mar 2018
The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services briefed the Portfolio Committee on the cost to communicate and the implementation of the ICT SMME Development Strategy. The briefing was the result of the strategy meeting held the previous year.
The high concentration of the broadband market, as well as the vertically ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
USAASA briefing; with Deputy Minister
6 Mar 2018
The Deputy Minister of Posts and Telecommunications said that there were challenges in the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA) that the ministry was trying to address. The ministry recommended courses of action to the board, but if nothing happened then interventions were necessary. People had to ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
National e-Strategy + e-Government Strategy implementation
27 Feb 2018
DRAFT MINUTES OF THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SERVICES
DATE : 27 February 2018
TIME : 09:30
VENUE : Committee Room 3, 90 Plein Street
AGENDA : Briefing by Department on National e-Government Strategy
implementation
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Telecommunications and Postal Services
Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services, SENTECH; Broadband Infraco + USAASA and USAF on Quarter 1 & 2 performance
20 Feb 2018
The Committee heard presentations from the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS), SENTECH; Broadband Infraco (BBI); and USAASA and USAF on their performance information for quarters one and two 2017/18.
Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS)
The DTPS said that, in the first quarter, 22 out of 26 ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
SASSA Project: South African Post Office progress report
13 Feb 2018
South African Post Office briefed the Committee on its readiness to migrate social grant beneficiaries to its new integrated grant payment systems. It sought to clarify the confusion and panic surrounding the South African Social Security Agency’s urgent application to the Constitutional Court. SAPO assured Members of Parliament that SASSA ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
USAASA progress report on Mpumalanga oversight visit recommendations
28 Nov 2017
The Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA) presented the findings from their oversight visit to the Mpumalanga municipality, which showed there was an issue with the current service providers that the Agency had outsourced to provide connectivity in Mpumalanga. Upon investigation, it had been discovered that the ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Ikamva National eSkills Institute (iNeSI) Bill: briefing
14 Nov 2017
The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services provided an update to the Committee on the INESI bill following on its meeting in March. The Department said the bill had been through a long process of extensive consultation which included the Department of Higher Education (DHE) to determine where e-skills training ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Communications Infrastructure Rapid Deployment: Department briefing, with Minister
7 Nov 2017
The Committee met with Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services to be briefed on the rapid deployment of communications infrastructure.
Highlights of the brief from the Department included the process followed on the rapid Information Communication Technology deployment policy; the aim of the policy; a definition of rapid deployment of ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Proposed legislation emanating from National Integrated ICT Policy White Paper, with Minister
10 Oct 2017
The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) briefed the Portfolio Committee on the contents of the proposed legislation emanating from the national integrated information communication technology (ICT) policy White Paper. The Minister said that the purpose of this legislative programme was to establish the institutional and legal frameworks needed ...