The Communications Ministry is the worst yet created by Zuma
A litany of ministers over the years have either been proficient — and so removed — or incapable of getting anything done
One of the worst ministries ever to be created under the Zuma administration is the ministry of communications. Over the past decade the department has had countless ministers who have come and gone without achieving anything of significance. Whether it be digital migration or the proper governance of the public broadcaster, it seems there is something about this ministry that makes its incumbents unable to complete the tasks that face them. The late Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, who couldn’t otherwise be faulted, ended up camped in court with the ICT industry; Roy Padayachie was moved along before anything serious could be ascribed to him; Yunus Carrim, who has his head screwed on right, was not allowed to touch the SABC board and, in effect, got fired by Hlaudi Motsoeneng before he could meet the digital migration deadline. I don’t even want to count Siphiwe Nyanda, who was most concerned about which series of BMW he was driving; and to top it all there was the spectacular failure called...
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