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Telecommunications and Postal Services
.zadna on its mandate
20 Jun 2017
The meeting was called because after the last meeting with ZADNA, the entity had felt that they were not well understood and wanted the opportunity to clarify themselves so that the Committee would have a better understanding.
ZADNA outlined the mandate of ZADNA by looking at the ECT Act and ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
TVET Colleges Certification challenges: SITA briefing, with Deputy Minister
30 May 2017
The Committee was briefed by the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) on challenges around Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) College Certification. SITA said it had been working on the matter for over six months and had appeared before the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training in December ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Cybersecurity: Department & SABRIC briefing, with Deputy Minister present
28 Feb 2017
The Portfolio Committee was briefed by the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) on the current state of and way forward regarding cybersecurity in South Africa. There was also a briefing by the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC) on the banking sectors experience of and response to ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
DTPS, SAPO, SITA, NEMISA, Sentech, BBI & .zadna on Quarter 2 performance; with Deputy Minister
21 Feb 2017
According to the Department’s report, the road map identifying and prioritising legislative amendments emanating from the Policy was developed as a consequence of the approval of the National Integrated ICT Policy White Paper. On Stated Owned Company rationalisation, the State Information Technology Agency State Owned Company assessment report on rationalisation ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
SA Post Office on implementation on turnaround strategy and future prospects, with Minister & Deputy present
31 Jan 2017
The Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services Siyabonga Cwele led the Department to discuss the implementation of the strategic turnaround plan for the Sthe South African Post Office (SAPO). The Minister said although the organisation was more than 100 years old it was not ageing but adapting to new challenges. ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Ratification of International Treaties: Department briefing; ICT Council role, with Minister in attendance
24 Jan 2017
The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services briefed and asked the Committee to support and approve the ratification of two international treaties.
First, the Department briefed the Committee on the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference that took place in Mexico in 2010. Amongst other things, the conference advanced the ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
International Telecommunications Regulations, World Radio Communications Conference Final Acts, with Minister; Committee Report on Cost to Communicate
15 Nov 2016
Ratification of the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITR)
The Minister, Mr Cwele, said it was important that South Africa ratified the regulations because the old regulations were outdated and affected the interoperability of mobile telephony which had increased dramatically since 1988 and to increase the transparency on pricing which needed to ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Special Investigating Unit investigations in Telecommunications and Postal Services, with Deputy Minister
8 Nov 2016
The Chairperson noted the lack of updates on the progress of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) investigations affected the Committee’s ability to do its oversight work. The Deputy Minister added that the Department could not follow up matters contained in SIU reports to the President, because the report belonged to ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Telecommunications and Postal Services Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
25 Oct 2016
2016 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Acting Chairperson of the Committee presented the Committee’s draft Budget Review and Recommendations Report on the Department’s 2015/16 annual report for consideration. Members corrected various typographical, grammar and style errors. The report was adopted as amended.
The Committee then received a ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
ZADNA on its 2015/16 Annual Report
20 Oct 2016
Ms D Tsotetsi (ANC) was nominated as the Acting Chairperson.
ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) presented its Annual Report for 2015/16 to the Committee, taking the Members through the main highlights of that report. The first section explained the meetings that had been held by the Authority. ...