Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
digital migrationlatest news & developments
Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has appointed a project steering committee to expedite South Africa’s long-delayed migration from analogue to digital.

Committee appointed to oversee South Africa’s lagging digital migration

‘We have the technical skills to ensure the migration takes place,’ says minister of communications and digital technologies

Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has appointed a project steering committee to expedite South Africa’s long-delayed migration from analogue to digital.

Yet another deadline for broadcast digital migration

After six bumpy years the communications ministry is determined the project will be completed by March 22

Digital technologies significantly reduce time in the implementation and operations of public-private partnerships. (Photo: Courtesy of Dark Fibre Africa)

Technologies in public-private partnerships

Digital technologies are disrupting traditional models

In order to embed digital into the DNA of any organisation, a radical mind and cultural shift is required.

Don’t forget the human

Change elicits fear at first, but if it adds value we must learn to embrace it

Ahead of anticipated change in immigration policy, government should consider the impact immigration legislation has on foreign direct investment and global skills transfer, says the author. (John McCann/M&G)

Scrap the borders that divide Africans

The continent was a place where people could always move freely, and this is what we must strive for, writes Achille Mbembe.

Graphic: John McCann

Blended learning is the future

Universities are successfully combining e-learning with traditional direct contact sessions

Will her head roll? Communications Minister Faith Muthambi was lambasted by the Supreme Court of Appeal for failing to consult stakeholders such as e.tv on her digital migration policy changes.

Faith Muthambi likely to bear brunt of the backlash over digital fail

Some foresee ‘blood in the water’ after the appeal court shot down the minister’s migration policy.

Islamist group al-Shabab.

Mthembu: Are you calling me a liar?

There is open warfare between the ANC’s subcommittee on communication and communication minister Faith Muthambi on the digital migration plan.

The ANC kept losing electoral ground to rival parties as its leadership failed to manage South Africa’s multifaceted problems.

Digital migration readiness under scrutiny in Parliament

MPs questioned things from the post office’s capability to deliver set-top boxes to why Faith Mathumbi was in her position, as she wasn’t present.

Namec president Keith Thabo

Battle of the box divides Namec

The small electronics industry body is accusing two of its heads of being ’empowerment raiders’.

Finally switching to digital

SABC television viewers will switch from analogue to digital early next year.

TV’s digital migration boxed down

TV’s digital migration boxed down

Free-to-air providers’ insistence on access control will drive up prices, detractors say.

Belta Dombeni

Digital learning centre opens new doors for pupils

A digital learning centre is opening doors to opportunities never before imagined by pupils and adult learners in a rural village in Mpumalanga.

A slow-motion digital migration

It will probably come as a surprise for most to find that unless they get hold of a special Set-Top Box, they won’t get any TV at all in the future.