The DoC isn't so bad: minister

You sir, have no way to know exactly how bad we think the DoC stinks, so bull**** to your analysis.

“It is really about bringing together the people who do the technical work, and having some political sense of where you want to go.”
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Strangely that's exactly why we pay you people good salaries for .. so please get some fracking sense!

(Seems this one's a dud too!)
 
The fact that you have to make such statements is testimony to the fact that they are just as bad as people think. Way to get going on the wrong foot, there...
 
The minister seems to be saying he doesn't need expertise himself, because he'll just bring together a group of people who will have that knowledge and then he'll listen to their opinions and choose the option that matches the governments objectives.

Sounds like it'll be another disaster. The hard part is finding those people who will give opinions which not only sound good, but which can be realistically executed on. His lack of experience means that he won't have a good sense of what's a nice sounding idea but infeasible. This is how you end up with nonsense like wanting to build the digital television setup boxes locally, someone steps up and gives an idea that sounds nice and aligns the best with governments plans yet is infeasible. And because the minister has no knowledge of the nuts and bolts, he can only evaluate the idea based on it theoretically meeting government objectives and the enthusiasm of the person presenting the plan.

If you can't cut through the bull****, Telkom's will just pile on more mumbo-jumbo of why they can't achieve LLU again, or someone will mess up more of the digital TV migration, and he'll have no way to determine what are legitimate reasons for failure and what's just people taking advantage of his ignorance.
 
"Within the next two weeks, present deadlines to be achieved;"

Does that include all the deadlines that have been missed over the years which are still continuing ad nauseum. I suppose if you get down to semantics past is not current. But then when you get down to practicalities these are still very current concerns.

I'm not being hostile here. We SA consumers are just a jaded bunch.

So far he's statements have been reasonable and reasoned though I must say. At least he's not spouting utter nonsense all the time. Here's hoping it continues.
 
"It's not as bad as you think..."
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This just means that our new minister does not see any problem with the state that the DOC is in at the moment. Furthermore, if he claims to finish the pending issues in two weeks, he does not see any current issues as outstanding.

My bet is that he is going to sit in his office and play Solitaire until the next election.
The proof is here:
Carrim said that the looming elections are likely to distract ministers from their usual tasks
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JZ must be proud.... all the qualifications Mr Carrim brings with him.... and he's a comedian too :-)
 
Geez, I think Gary should clean up all the threads sprouting up everywhere, clean it up in one thread.
 
There goes nothing

Isn't this the department that has sustained and comforted the Telkom monopoly for years, has brought us RICA and has supported ICASA in their morality- and fairness-free zone, and threatened to censor everything that moves and breathes? Who knows what they are up to with the film and publications board and advertising standards waste of time. They need a change of direction, rather than a new broom.
 
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Oh Dear Minister,

No, you do not need a Phd but a at least an IT qualification or experience would be nice.
Great to see that to get a job in OUR guavamint one does not need the experience. You go JZ.

I wish you ALL the success and hope that you will do 1 more thing then Pule did (and no, you don't need high heels). This will then be deemed a success! LOL

Some suggestions and do this NOW:

1. Implement LLU.
2. Free up and allocate the needed mobile spectrum.
3. Allow ICASA to do their job.
4. Sell Telkom and if you can Eskom.
etc...

Ramadan Kareem
 
It is amusing to me that people still think that a change in ministerial position will mean a change in government policy.

The DoC isn't in the state it's in because the previous ministers were idiots (they were), it's in the state it's in because that is exactly how the ANC wants it.
 
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