Showing posts with label Yunus Carrim. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yunus Carrim. Show all posts
Monday, March 24, 2014

South African government compares South African TV industry and digital terrestrial television to the Ukraine.

›
The South African government is comparing South Africa's TV industry and the long-delayed switch from analogue to digital terrestr...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

OPINION. Dear communications minister Yunus Carrim, stop behaving like the evil emperor of the galaxy with digital television in South Africa.

›
South Africa's egotistical minister of communications Yunus Carrim  appears to not want public debate on the country's long-stall...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

BREAKING. South Africa's TV industry begs government and minister Yunus Carrim to launch digital public TV and without encryption.

›
South Africa's community TV stations, the satellite pay-TV platform MultiChoice and The National Association of Manufacturers in...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

BREAKING. SABC gives zero coverage to the minister of communications, Yunus Carrim, meeting with the SABC board today over scathing report.

›
The minister of communications Yunus Carrim and the department's deputy-minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams met with the SABC board t...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

BREAKING. 'No intention to cut off anybody,' with digital terrestrial television (DTT) through Conditional Access (CA) system, says minister.

›
There is no intention to cut off any TV viewer in South Africa once the long-delayed and completely stalled switch from analogue to di...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

BREAKING. Stalled digital terrestrial television (DTT) migration in South Africa hijacked for 'job creation', minister mentions everyone - except the TV viewer.

›
The South African TV industry's long-delayed and completely stalled switch-over from analogue to digital terrestrial television (D...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Communication minister Yunus Carrim want to update parliament on corruption and criminal investigations at the SABC in a closed briefing.

›
Communication minister Yunus Carrim wants to update parliament's portfolio committee on communications on the corruption uncovered at...
Monday, October 21, 2013

The SABC's editorial independence will not be compromised in the run-up to the 2014 elections, says the minister of communications.

›
The SABC's editorial independence will not be compromised in the run-up to the South African general elections to be held in 2014,...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

SABC choir costs the South African public broadcaster more than R2 million per year.

›
The SABC choir which performs at events such as the memorial service for Vuyo Mbuli and the launch event of the SABC's SABC News chan...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

SHOCKER! SABC unable to say what it did with R1,5 BILLION, latest financial report gets worst EVER audit opinion.

›
The SABC is unable to say what South Africa's public broadcaster did with more than R1,5 BILLION , prompting the worst EVER audit...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

BREAKING. Government planning to break up MultiChoice and SuperSport's lock on premium TV content - especially sport.

›
You're reading it here first.  The South African government is set on crafting a new policy to bring an end to premium televisio...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

TV news channels such as the new SABC News 'are a risk everywhere in the world,' says communications minister Yunus Carrim.

›
"The SABC needs to communicate more clearly that yes, the SABC News channel is starting on pay-TV but very soon it will be available...
Friday, August 2, 2013

The SABC as a public broadcaster needs to communicate more, says minister of communications, Yunus Carrim.

›
South Africa's new minister of communications, Yunus Carrim , says the SABC should be communicating much more to viewers about what t...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

BREAKING. SABC News channel launches 'with bottles of real champagne'; Lulama Mokhobo, SABC CEO, says 'tough task ahead'.

›
You're reading it here first. The SABC, funded by MultiChoice with hundreds of millions of rands for the establishment of its ne...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

BREAKING. 'Excrusiatingly aware of the need to stabilise the SABC," says Yunus Carrim, the new minister of communications.

›
As South Africa's TV industry is breathing a collective sigh of relief after the firing of the scandal-riddled Dina Pule  as the m...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

BREAKING. Dina Pule fired as minister of communications; replaced by Yunus Carrim.

›
The embattled and scandal prone Dina Pule has been fired as South Africa's minister of communications by president Jacob Zuma wh...

BREAKING. SABC licence fee price hike coming; TV licence fee increasing by 6% to R265 from September.

›
An SABC licence fee hike of 6% is coming raising the cost of an annual SABC TV licence to R265 from 1 September 2013. The owner of ev...