Gauteng roads IT contracts probed
Ismail Vadi, newly appointed MEC of Gauteng’s department of roads and transport, has called for the auditor-general to investigate 13 contracts awarded by the departmental acquisition
Ismail Vadi, newly appointed MEC of Gauteng’s department of roads and transport, has called for the auditor-general to investigate 13 contracts awarded by the departmental acquisition
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ANC MP Eric Kholwane is the new chairman of parliament’s portfolio committee on communications, replacing Ismail Vadi, who was named earlier this month as the new MEC for roads and transport in Gauteng.
Parliament is losing the highly respected chairman of its portfolio committee on communications. Ismail Vadi has been appointed as the new MEC for roads and transport in Gauteng, meaning he’ll have to give up his parliamentary duties as early as this week. Vadi is on a study tour to Canada and the UK and could [...]
Cabinet should look carefully at all the implications of a review of the policy on digital migration. This is the telling conclusion reached by the parliamentary portfolio committee on communications in a report detailing a review of two television standards being considered for SA’s move from analogue to digital terrestrial television.
Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications called off a meeting it was due to hold with executives from dysfunctional state-owned signal distributor Sentech on Tuesday morning. Sentech flew four company members, including its chairman, Quraysh Patel, to Cape Town this week to present its turnaround strategy to the committee. However, Sentech’s “plan for sustainability” did not reach the parliamentarians until Tuesday morning, giving them no time to review the document ahead of the meeting.
The SABC board has moved to suspend CEO Solly Mokoetle, it emerged on Tuesday. The news was revealed soon after the Western Cape high court overruled attempts by parliament to hold a briefing on the latest trouble at the public broadcaster behind closed doors. “They have served him with a legal letter with the intention to suspend him and he has been given an ‘x’ number of days — exactly how many days I don’t know — to respond to the letter to explain why he should not be suspended,” said Ismail Vadi, chairman of parliament’s portfolio committee on communications.
Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications, chaired by ANC MP Ismail Vadi, has summoned the boards of the SABC and Sentech to answer questions about problems affecting both organisations. The committee on Thursday said it had “decided to invite the full board of the SABC to appear before it on 24 August 2010″.
The SOS Campaign has raised serious concerns that proposed changes to the Icasa Act would undermine the independence of the regulator, and effectively make it an operational body within the department of communications. The campaign, which is made up of unions, nongovernment organisations and academics, says the proposed changes to the law would fall foul [...]
Parliament’s communications portfolio committee on Tuesday announced the names of candidates shortlisted to be interviewed for four positions on the council of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa). Icasa is responsible for the regulation of broadcasting, postal and telecommunications services in SA. Interviews are scheduled to start on Friday. In a statement, the committee [...]
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