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In the previous Parliament, the process to enact the Bill reached the stage of public consultations.

The Chairperson of Parliament’s Communications and Digital Technology Committee, Khusela Sangoni, has expressed grave concern following reports that theThe aim of the Bill is to relook at the financing model of the public broadcaster, as its unfunded public mandate has become near impossible to carry.In a statement, Sangoni says the portfolio committee was not consulted in this regard.

She says while she appreciates that the Minister has the rescinding authority, the action to withdraw the Bill is ill conceived. Malatsi is quoted as saying that the Bill is totally flawed, it does not address the funding model of the public broadcaster and assigns too much power to the Minister in appointing board members.

But Sangoni says this is trigger-happy action, which serves no purpose but to frustrate and disrupt processes already under way. Sangoni says none of the issues raised by civil society and the Democratic Alliance , are insurmountable.

 

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