How cadre deployment hurts South Africa's digital migration

This is nothing new in terms of political protection. The fact that ministers are moved to other portfolios if they mess up steal too much rather than being fired, says everything you will need to know. The real reason they are reluctant to transition from analog to digital is to protect the flimsy TV license fees. While broadcasting with analog they can't prove who consumes it so everyone pays, with digital they would be able to see exactly how many are signed in.. When the number of signed in users is 10 they will struggle to justify the license.

That and with 50% unemployment people wouldn't be able to stream their propaganda anymore.
 
Turdnugget said:
This is nothing new in terms of political protection. The fact that ministers are moved to other portfolios if they mess up steal too much rather than being fired, says everything you will need to know. The real reason they are reluctant to transition from analog to digital is to protect the flimsy TV license fees. While broadcasting with analog they can't prove who consumes it so everyone pays, with digital they would be able to see exactly how many are signed in.. When the number of signed in users is 10 they will struggle to justify the license.

That and with 50% unemployment people wouldn't be able to stream their propaganda anymore.
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Um, no.

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Talking about and not doing anything about, will not fix the issues! Take action and get rid of the wrongfully employed cadre and then get rid of the person that employed them!

But no ANC would rather talk about and do nothing about and just say it's wrong and they will just carry on and F... SA blame the whites and say eish Apartheid fault. Let's put more BEE that will fix it.
 
MeestaR said:
First time I see the word "cadre" in a MyBB article...
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The work of the "Cadre Deployment Committee" was already analyzed in 2018 in this article.
The High Court has declared cadre deployment in the public administration illegal and unconstitutional. No appeal against this finding was ever made.


In other words, the ANC accepts that it was caught out trying to deploy one of its cadres as a municipal manager and it has been more circumspect and secretive about cadre deployment ever since Nelson Mandela Bay’s Vuyo Mlokoti’s case was decided. The practice continues unabated. Lynne Brown has publicly admitted that she submitted her short list of candidates for the Eskom board to Luthuli House. Needless to say, the comrades at Luthuli House have less than nothing to do with appointing staff at any state-owned enterprise or indeed in the public administration. The convoluted career of Brian Molefe is proof of how badly things can go wrong when cadres of political parties are required to comply with section 195 of the Constitution.​
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A shame that it still continues with impunity and in disregard of the law.
 
Cadre deployment has been hurting south africa all over the place since the zuma years, if not before.
 
Thank you! Calling a spade a spade. But we also know the that the ANC is corrupt to it's core.

The only thing that was missing from yesterdays budget speech is that the finance minister didn't detail the ANC's cut . . . .

He should say we will spend R272.3bn on Education of which R72.2bn will be given to the ANC. A budget should be clear and specific.....
 
I worked for SABC and then Sentech in the communications/Broadcasting industry for 40 years. The digital transmitters were all installed and running a decade ago, broadcasting to nodody. We even had to travel on call-outs 100's of Km at night in a lightning storm to go and put a faulty transmitter back on that nobody can watch - not once - regularly. These transmitters are still running, using up a lot of Eskom power (approx 50KW per site 24/7/365) and we have about 100 sites = 50MW being used constantly for nothing. This government is about as useless as a slug with dementia.
 
wrinklyo said:
I worked for SABC and then Sentech in the communications/Broadcasting industry for 40 years. The digital transmitters were all installed and running a decade ago, broadcasting to nodody. We even had to travel on call-outs 100's of Km at night in a lightning storm to go and put a faulty transmitter back on that nobody can watch - not once - regularly. These transmitters are still running, using up a lot of Eskom power (approx 50KW per site 24/7/365) and we have about 100 sites = 50MW being used constantly for nothing. This government is about as useless as a slug with dementia.
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Add to that the storage costs of 860,000 STBs.

www.itweb.co.za/content/j5alrMQanzWMpYQk
 
Marcan said:
Add to that the storage costs of 860,000 STBs.

www.itweb.co.za/content/j5alrMQanzWMpYQk
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We were constantly asking, "when are the STBs coming?" and we were always told that they hadn't been manufactured yet - but here's almost a million of the things rotting in some warehouse. This makes me angry.
I wonder if the manufacturers ever got paid for them?
 
wrinklyo said:
We were constantly asking, "when are the STBs coming?" and we were always told that they hadn't been manufactured yet - but here's almost a million of the things rotting in some warehouse. This makes me angry.
I wonder if the manufacturers ever got paid for them?
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Maybe someone ordered DVBT1 decoders?
 
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