{"id":550590,"date":"2006-10-20T11:51:02","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550590-communications-dg-gets-poor-performance-rating.html"},"modified":"2006-10-20T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T11:51:02","slug":"communications-dg-gets-poor-performance-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550590-communications-dg-gets-poor-performance-rating.html","title":{"rendered":"Communications DG gets poor performance rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The Mail&amp;Guardian was not too complimentary when it came to Shope-Mafole.\u00a0 Her &#8216;E&#8217; rating translates into &quot;Do yourself and the country a favour &#8212; resign.&quot;<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cIn a sector where success can be measured against two key indicators &#8212; affordability and accessibility &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gov.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Communications <\/a>under the stewardship of Lyndall Shope-Mafole is having no real impact,\u201d the report said. The lack of action concerning broadband-related issues was also addressed in the report.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThe pledge of more affordable telecommunication and broadband services is a distant promise\u2026South Africans are still stuck with some of the highest telecommunications prices in the world,\u201d the article said.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Shope-Mafole however thinks that she and her department are doing a good job. \u201cShope-Mafole says she thinks her department has performed well, as opposed to very well, and would rate her performance as a C,\u201d the DG is quoted as saying in the M&amp;G report.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/articlePage.aspx?articleid=287208&#038;area=\/insight\/insight__national\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">full report<\/font> <\/a><font size=\"2\">is available online on the Mail&amp;Guardian website.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=56366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article<\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Communications Director General, Lyndall Shope-Mafole, has been given the very poor score of \u2018E\u2019 in a recent Mail&#038;Guardian DG Grading Report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}