Will Jordan replace Ivy?

rpm said:
Who will replace her?
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A nice Flower arrangement? Same brain capacity! :D ... or perhaps a cactus... in keeping with the general flavour she brought to the office. ;)

or some "creeping Ivy" :p
 
Palo Jordan was Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting between 1994 and 1996.

If appointed to the position it would make sense considering South Africa's odd telecoms environment.
 
I vote RPM as new Minister of Communications :)

Only problem is... I highly doubt Rudolph will want to be a paid and proud member of the ANC :P
 
Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said last year that she will vacate her position in 2009, and rumors are starting to emerge that an established ANC stalwart will take her place.
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So Poison Ivy's vacation is imminent then?

Perhaos someone should tell her that it is in fact 2009, and that she is overdue for that vacation, or someone could provide us with the GPS coords of her postition [not her office at DoC - no concrete evidence that she has ever been there], and we can then experimentally activate her teleportation to another planet - remateralisation not guaranteed - not every experiment is successful.
 
Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said last year that she will vacate her position in 2009, and rumors are starting to emerge that an established ANC stalwart will take her place.
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as if she has a choice
the minister who will forever be known as "No you can't"

“Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri is held responsible for the disastrous Telkom privatization and slow progress in opening internet and telephony markets’ She is definitely out,” the Mail & Guardian states.
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I think the M&G have got it completely wrong here. We as consumers and industry may hold her responsible for these things BUT she will be out more because she has actually failed to implement managed liberalisation and made such a stuff-up that SA now has one of the most liberal infrastructure licensing environments in the world.

I am pretty sure Ivy's brief from cabinet was to secure revenue from new licences and protect the value of government shareholdings in telkom and others through implementing managed liberalisation. The fact that, thanks to the Altech decision, she has failed to do this means she is incompetent in the eyes of consumers and industry but, far more importantly, incompetent in the eyes of cabinet.

According to the Mail & Guardian Pallo Jordan ‘is ready for a more senior position’ and may be considered for the position of Communications Minister. Jordan currently heads up the ANC’s internal communications unit.
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mmmm - no Pallo mine - an ANC intellectual and backbencher who would be better than many but imho would also be a step backwards. it was under his watch that managed liberalisation according to the Minister's discretion secured a foothold in the Telecommunications Act

Another strong candidate is Deputy Communications Minister Roy Padayachie who has long been seen as more progressive than Matsepe-Casaburri and a potential successor to the Minister.
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gets my vote. history may tell us that VANS self-provision and infrastructure liberalisation was initiated way back by this man.

Communications Director General Lyndall Shope-Mafole’s defection to the new ANC breakaway party COPE has taken her out of the running.
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for which we should all be Very Grateful.

I mean, can you just imagine how rabid ic would have got if we had 5 yrs of Stalin - Mafole as minister of comms ... ?
 
I would be happy with anyone that can stay awake, has more than a single brain cell, knows how to use the internet and knows how painful it is....
 
1. Anyone stupid enough to believe the BS the ANC spouts shouldn't be allowed to apply for the position, which would automatically remove any ANC members.
2. A pity they can't get someone technically competent, but once again, to do that would naturally enforce point 1
 
nfbs said:
Pallo Jordan was Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting between 1994 and 1996.
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Oh great. :( A return to the "good old days". On the whole, I support the suggestion of a pot plant instead. What we need right now is a decent regulator, and no minister to get in the way.
 
dominic said:
I am pretty sure Ivy's brief from cabinet was to secure revenue from new licences and protect the value of government shareholdings in telkom and others through implementing managed liberalisation. The fact that, thanks to the Altech decision, she has failed to do this means she is incompetent in the eyes of consumers and industry but, far more importantly, incompetent in the eyes of cabinet.
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Agreed, I just wish there was a way of proving it, but probably best to let sleeping dogs alone for the moment.

One thing that I do find interesting, is that Poison Ivy has the support of the current cabinet, which does suggest that the current [and former] top leadership of the ANC are all directly complicit where [mis]Mananged [Telecoms] Liberalistion is concerned.
dominic said:
gets my vote. history may tell us that VANS self-provision and infrastructure liberalisation was initiated way back by this man.
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You might just have killed his chance of being appointed MoC :eek:.

dominic said:
for which we should all be Very Grateful.

I mean, can you just imagine how rabid ic would have got if we had 5 yrs of Stalin - Mafole as minister of comms ... ?
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LOL, true :D.
 
Jordan would want to change all the names of the telecom comapnies to reflect something. Just replace Ivy with a stone - it would be a smaller hurdle in our telecoms evolution.
 
saw a pic of her on Helkom website - she looks more like an aged domestic than an intellect minister, capable of running a high profile dept, like the MOC!
 
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