South Africa Connect

For those of you who couldn’t attend the forum on March 24th last month, here’s a video of the event, produced by The African Commons Project. You’ll get a good overview of the day and the issues that were discussed by the participants, as well as an idea of the next steps for broadband [...]

DRAFT FOR DISCUSSION - 18 March 2009
Preamble
The world is in the midst of a global financial crisis which poses a threat to all emerging markets including South Africa. How we respond will shape the next 5 – 10 years of our future. All sectors and stakeholders in South Africa will have to work closely together [...]

The curious approach to the telecommunications sector of the Mbeki era has finally collapsed under its own contradictions. As president, Mbeki regularly complained of the high cost of telecommunications as a drag on the economy. But he failed to see that his own government’s policy of ‘managed liberalisation’ was at the root of the problem. [...]