Communications minister Solly Malatsi, a DA MP and the primary non-ANC politician to carry the important thing cupboard portfolio within the democratic period, has been within the job for 3 months – ample time to get a broad deal with on the large points.
On this first interview with the TechCentral Present, TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod asks Malatsi a spread of questions concerning the sector, together with his views on how he plans to handle among the extra intractable issues in his inbox.
The interview, which was recorded on Friday, 4 October – shortly earlier than he introduced he was issuing a coverage route to communications regulator Icasa that might see a giant change to empowerment guidelines governing licensing within the sector – covers a variety of subjects, from Elon Musk’s Starlink to the continued feud between the SABC and Sentech.
Different subjects lined within the interview embrace:
- The minister’s engagements with Starlink and the latest assembly in New York between Musk and President Cyril Ramaphosa;
- His views on black financial empowerment and why his prime precedence is lowering the price of knowledge and making certain extra South Africans can join affordably to the web and on-line companies;
- His plan for personal sector participation within the Submit Workplace, and whether or not the corporate is basically value saving;
- The conflict between the SABC and Sentech, and the way it may be resolved;
- Future funding fashions for the SABC and the way forward for TV licences in South Africa;
- The issues on the State IT Company, and what the main target ought to be of presidency’s central IT procurement and companies supplier;
- The deliberate merger of Sentech and Broadband Infraco and why he believes it must occur;
- Authorities’s 40.5% stake in Telkom and what ought to occur to it;
- The street to digital migration and whether or not there’s nonetheless a necessity for terrestrial tv in 2024;
- 2G and 3G switch-off in South Africa and whether or not this ought to be mandated by the federal government; and
- The legislative programme for the division of communications & digital applied sciences.
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