Digital TV's lost signal in South Africa

During the past five years, South Africa has had four communication ministers, all of them with their own ideas and agendas regarding digital migration. This makes it difficult to lay the blame squarely at anyone’s feet — they have all contributed to the delay.
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No it's easy: cANCer

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A great article, however sad the subject is. This has to be the ultimate in procrastination. I can't help feeling that come 2015 there will be a race to make the change before the deadline. I think the biggest culprit in this sad saga must be the minister who considered changing formats to the south american model, just as everything was set to go for the originally decided format. We might have already been there, were it not for that delay.
I still have the old style tv's in my house, and will only change to flat screens etc. once this technology has been added and included. I'm not having another flipping box attached. Looks like i'm in for a long wait.

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Where government (Sentech), DoC or ICASA are involved the process is notoriously slow.
Add all three to the mix and you get no progress.
 
They took a relatively simple conversion path, and complicated it by thinking up ways to make money out of it. Once again, personal enrichment, instead of "the greater good" is causing SA to look like just another backwater African country ...
 
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