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WhatsApp On 26 January 2021 The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) and the Press Council hosted a briefing on the  Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) recently published Draft White Paper on Audio and Audio-visual Content Services Policy Framework: A New Vision for South Africa 2020. The briefing was arranged to assist journalism bodies and media houses to better understand the proposed regulation and to help them in responding to the invitation for public...

There are significant disparities in South Africa’s education system. Schools are divided into quintiles, from one to five; the poorest, in quintile one, struggle enormously with a lack of resources and support. They also tend to have poorer educational outcomes. That has a direct effect on university admission and outcomes. One of the government’s attempts to address these inequalities is through technology. This began as early as 2003 with the Draft White Paper on e-Education. These and s...

Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams said the government is also planning to implement stronger enforcement and penalties for people who do not pay…

Stella must justify expense to taxpayers for SABC bailout Issued by Zakhele Mbhele MP – DA Shadow Minister of Communications & Digital Technologies 06 Jan 2021 in News The Democratic Alliance (DA) will write to the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, to ask her to justify properly government’s intention of charging people with mobile devices the cost of a television licence and transferring all the subsequent income to the SABC. This is after the Mi...

If the government pushes forward with plans to force local content quotas and TV licence collection mandates onto streaming services like Netflix, more South…