ADVISORY. Minister set to announce the 15 new members of the new Digital Dzonga advisory council on Friday.

I can tell you that the minister of communications, Siphiwe Nyanda will announce the new 15 members of the newly reconstituted Digital Dzonga tomorrow on Friday, 20 August after he abruptly dissolved this advisory council on 1 April citing ''conflicts of interest'' between members and the industry.

The Digital Dzonga is supposed to advise the minister and the department as well as the TV industry in South Africa about this country's migration to digital terrestrial television (DTT). South Africa's switch-over to DTT is already far behind schedule and growing in controversy because of a lack of leadership and direction from the department, bungling by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) with the DTT regulations and speed of getting the regulations into law, zero information on the subsidy process, and shocking indecisiveness (and a lack of clarity and transparency) from the government on the originally agreed-upon DBV-T standard with the TV industry.

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The new council's 15 members will be made up out of representatives from every sector of South Africa's information and communications technology industry including the IT and broadcasting industry as well as various labour and consumer groups.