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/ 2 December 2004
South Africa’s long-awaited Convergence Bill will be put to Cabinet in January once issues affecting internet broadcasting have been sorted out in the drafting process of the legislation, Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe Casaburri said on Thursday. She said her director general was still "not very happy" that the issue of internet broadcasting had not been fully addressed.
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/ 22 November 2004
Delegates to South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) federal congress in Durban over the weekend were greeted by a flood of posters on just about every lamp post in the area surrounding the International Convention Centre, advertising the candidacy of an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) candidate and a DA candidate for the local municipal ward.
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/ 12 November 2004
Telkom has denied allegations that it embarked on a share buy-back programme early this year to artificially boost its share price and secure a cushioned exit for its strategic equity partner, Thintana. This week questions were asked in Parliament about Telkom ”ramping” its share price, following the spectacular surge in the utility’s share value over the year, and allegations in noseweekthat this had resulted from Telkom buying its own shares.
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/ 9 November 2004
Telkom, South Africa’s partially privatised fixed-line telephone company, will announce its proposed tariffs for next year on Monday, says Telkom CEO Sizwe Nxasana. "With inflation being where it is, we can expect Telkom’s tariffs to be even much lower [sic]," Nxasana told the National Assembly communications portfolio committee on Tuesday.
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/ 3 November 2004
Zimbabwe’s silos ”are full”, and the country has enjoyed ”a wonderful harvest” in the last year, the country’s ambassador to South Africa, Simon Khaya Moyo, told the National Assembly’s foreign affairs portfolio committee on Wednesday. Moyo would not comment on the jail sentence of opposition MP Roy Bennett.
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/ 2 November 2004
The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) was to meet later on Tuesday to pass a resolution that backtracks on one passed by the chamber last week — "which regrets the refusal of the president to address the serious crime of rape in our country and to acknowledge the suffering of women and children who are attacked on a daily basis".
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/ 2 November 2004
Privatisation came under fire on Tuesday afternoon in a debate in the National Assembly on the planned retrenchment of 7 600 workers at South Africa’s semi-privatised fixed-line telephone monopoly Telkom. Leading the debate was Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder.
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/ 1 November 2004
Solidarity, the mainly white trade union, and the left-leaning Congress of South African Trade Unions were to work jointly on Monday to protest against retrenchments by fixed-line monopoly Telkom — by posting 25 statements on the door of the National Assembly. The Assembly is to debate the Telkom retrenchments on Tuesday.
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/ 29 October 2004
South Africa will give consideration to reviewing its policy on the ownership by foreign interests of South Africa’s banks, says Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel. In Parliament, he said the current policy "is informed by the view that four major banks is the minimum number necessary to ensure a certain level of competition in the market".