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DUNCAN MCLEOD: Minister’s digital migration move leaves SABC in lurch
Khumbudzo Ntshavheni scored spectrum success, but her plan to switch off millions of analogue-only households rides roughshod over the broadcasting industry
23 February 2023 - 05:00
Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni is, I am told, one of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s favourite ministers.
A relative youngster in Ramaphosa’s cabinet (she’s 46), she managed last year to get the long-overdue broadband spectrum auction over the line, something her many predecessors in the portfolio were incapable of doing. In this way, R14bn was raised for the fiscus...
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