If you wondered why the telecoms industry in SA is still in the doldrums, look no further than last week’s display of ministerial malpractice — nay, malfeasance — by the two departments of communications. First Siyabonga Cwele, the spy boss turned minister of telecommunications & postal services, issues an ICT white paper so bizarrely unenforceable and anti-business that it’ll be the laughing stock of ministerial documents for years. But arguably the maddest moment, in a week during which Hlaudi Motsoeneng defied parliament and "mesmerisingly" talked about himself in the third person, came from communications minister Faith Muthambi. Former government spokesman Mzwanele Manyi tweeted that Motsoeneng (who was reappointed to a senior position at the SABC after the supreme court of appeals said he had been illegally installed as the state broadcaster’s COO) "was on the right side of the Employment Equity Act with regards to his qualifications. SABC governance issues are board matters,...
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