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http://sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=523456


XOLANI XUNDU Published:Jul 25, 2007


Telkom tariffs stunting Internet connection

SOUTH Africa’s telecommunications costs will come under the spotlight at the Cabinet lekgotla, which ends tomorrow.

President Thabo Mbeki has long lambasted Telkom, which is under direct control of the department of communications, for failing to lower its tariffs, which have a direct impact on the cost of doing business in the country.

Government officials said call centres present South Africa with an opportunity to employ several hundred of thousands of people, but it was not competing in this growth sector because of the high costs of telecoms.

Government spokesman Themba Maseko said: “The role of the mid-year Cabinet lekgotla is to review the implementation of the programme of action to make sure that we identify all obstacles and constraints that the government is experiencing in meeting the challenges facing the nation.”

The department of trade and industry will also be presenting an action plan that will back up the country’s recently developed industrial strategy.

A government official said the action plan provides an analysis of the South African economy .

The action plan identifies the automotive, tourism, chemicals, clothing and textiles sectors as areas to on which to focus.

Maseko said second economy interventions, such as the Expanded Public Works Programme and the Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Programme, would also be reviewed, looking at the impact these were making on poverty eradication and job creation.
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More discussions, but little if any action.

This is the solution to our current problem of lack of power. Channel all the hot air spouted by inefficient politicians and ministers of portfolios into a generater of some sort and we could power Joburg indefinitely.
 
while the high price of telecoms in SA are probed, the general public will be "probed" on a daily basis to pay their @#$%$# high fees.

probe a cactus in your ear rather... much more helpful to us
 
Otherwise probe all they want! as NOTHING! will be done!
 
yipeeeeeeeeee call centres.
oh no. never will lower bandwidth costs and internet prices improve our economy.

Telco costs are mos just telephone lines. therefore reduce tely lines costs and you get better call centres.

bakas all of them.
 
// wonder if it will be as much of a ****ing as we as consumers have been getting for the past ten years
// pardon my french but i doubt it
 
President Thabo Mbeki has long lambasted Telkom, which is under direct control of the department of communications...
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And the DoC is a department within the government - so get with lambasting the Minister as well...
 
Someone should put in a front page headline:
PRESIDENT CRITICISES COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER FOR POOR PERFORMANCE

Then when they claim the president said no such thing, you point them to all the mentions of high telecoms costs. I would love to watch the ensuing conversation.

"no, we were criticising telkom"
"but they're being run like any private company, to maximise profits. How does the responsibility lie with them to lower pricing?"
"because we said so"
"why not just renationalise telkom then?
"because in order for them to be able to compete they have to be run privately."
"but there's no competition."
"er, um, interview over."

Hello, Leg Warehouse? My government needs something to stand on. Nothing for them to stand on? Thanks very much.
 
Never mind Leg Warehouse. I think they need to get hold of Brain Emporium.
 
They should get the aliens to do a bit of gratuitous anal probing on them telkom execs :D
 
I agree

Just giving someone a job and a car, for what is really an afternoons work for most of us

Also another excuse to delay any action, and look good at the same time
 
oh i c... they're only probing it now???... for Frak sakes, how many bloody meetings and dougnut sessions did they not have already!!!
 
Mbeki every six months same thing nothing happens lets vote for him again
 
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