PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO: 2041
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 16 August 2013
QUESTION PAPER NO: 27
DATE OF REPLY:
Ms LL van der Merwe (IF) to ask the Minister of Communications:
Whether his department will establish a task team to deal with the (a)
cause and (b) extent of the under collection of licence fees by the
Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) annually; if
not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
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REPLY:
Without undermining the independence of ICASA, we have set up a structure
comprising representatives of ICASA and the Department of Communications to
attend to various issues. We will engage with ICASA on whether we should
include the matter of the collection of license fees as one of the issues
that the structure should consider. Certainly, we think it should.