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This article originally appeared in Business Day on the 11th of November 2008
A FLURRY of court action, with Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri on the losing side in two recent rulings, has again lifted the telecommunications sector out of the doldrums in which it found itself as a result of a lack of policy clarity and [...]

The decision by the Ministry of Communication to interdict the regulator, ICASA, and by so doing, for the court to clarify whether the regulator should be executing the earlier court order that the Ministry has appealed, reflects the chaotic state of the sector.
Relief by the courts from policy uncertainty or regulatory capriciousness or just poor [...]

by Alison Gillwald, Director, Research ICT Africa!, The EDGE Institute, published in Business Day, 10th of September, 2008
The recent high court ruling by Acting Judge N Davis setting aside certain prohibitions in the telecommunication sector and upholding the automatic conversion of their rights into the new licensing regime has been hailed as having the potential [...]