The South African government has announced that its department of communications will be changing to a new name of department of communications and digital technologies (DCDT).
South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa made the announcement on Friday.
This follows the merger of the department of telecommunications and postal services that has been folded back into the department of communications.
The department of communications was split into the department of communications and the department of telecommunications and postal services in 2014 by the then South African president Jacob Zuma and his corrupt government.
South Africa's industry, business and TV sector in 2014 slammed the split with both departments that continued to severely underperform and with the country little further in long-delayed switch and digital migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT).
The switch to DTT has already cost the South African government and the local TV industry billions and is more than a decade behind schedule with both departments that failed in advancing and completing the process.
The jetsetting minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams who was in Japan last week on yet another whirlwind global tete-a-tete will continue to lead the department of communications and digital technologies although she hasn't been hands-on in dealing with solving extremely acute and months-old problems like the cash-strapped South African public broadcaster.
The damaged and beleaguered SABC needs more than R3 billion in an urgent new government-guaranteed bailout, while the South African Post Office has been floundering, and many other areas requiring urgent intervention.
The merger of the department of communications and department of telecommunications and postal services are ongoing.
