TOBY SHAPSHAK: A signal boost for telecoms industry
New minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has her work cut out to reinvigorate this essential part of the economy
It was easy last week to focus on the failure of President Cyril Ramaphosa to fire SA’s two most incompetent ministers, Bathabile Dlamini and Nomvula Mokonyane, but we should be heartened by our new communications minister. It might be facetious to say Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams is infinitely better than her more recent predecessors, because they were such a bunch of useless and corrupt Zuma-ites who did more to advance state capture than the country’s interests. None more so than Faith Muthambi, who, according to the Gupta leaks, forwarded cabinet minutes to the Saxonwold Shebeen owners about the critical switchover to digital terrestrial television (DTT). Her predecessor, the late Roy Padayachie, tried to influence coverage of the Guptas, among other things. Yet another "Gupta minister" — as former National Treasury director-general Lungisa Fuzile put it at the Zondo commission last week — was "Weekend Special" David Des van Rooyen, whose four-day stint as finance minister in Decembe...
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