1 December 2014

Pursuant to section 38 of the Broadcasting Act (no.4 of 1999), the Minister of Communications issued a notice requesting public nominations to serve on the South Africa Broadcast Production Advisory Body to advise her on how the development, production and display of local content can be supported in the Republic. The Minister hereby wishes to extend the closing date to the 17th December 2014.

30 November 2014

Government wishes to advise members of the media about planned media briefings scheduled for the week of 1 to 7 December 2014. 

28 November 2014

On 12 November 2014 the Minister of Communications, Honourable Faith Muthambi released a Gazette 38206 in terms of section 3(2) of the Broadcasting Act (No. 4 of 1999) stating her intentions to undertake a comprehensive broadcasting policy review.
 
The Minister requests the members of the public and industry to submit issues for consideration during this process. Issues to be included for submission can include, but not limited to:

28 November 2014

Government is concerned by the unwarranted destruction of public property and the provocative confrontation by asylum seekers towards members of the police that occurred outside Customs House on the Foreshore – a regional Home Affairs building in Cape Town.  Government condemns such actions as they breach both the spirit and letter of South African law.

28 November 2014

Government is disappointed with the Mail & Guardian’s attempt to discredit the collaborative efforts of the South African and Nigerian governments to repatriate the bodies of South Africans that died in Nigeria. Government places it on record that no form of bartering with Nigeria was conducted during the repatriation process.

28 November 2014

Members of the media are invited to apply for media accreditation for the commemoration of the first anniversary of passing away of former president Nelson Mandela.

Members of the media are advised that the pre-accreditation online registration process is accessible on https://www.doc.gov.za/content/media-registration. The deadline for the pre-accreditation process is Wednesday, 03 December 2014 at 15h00.

28 November 2014

On Friday 28 November, Deputy Minister Stella Ndabeni- Abrahams will attend the Gagasi FM annual stakeholder gala dinner at Umhlanga Rocks in Durban where she will give a key note address.  After the key note address, she will go to the South African National Civic Association of South Africa (SANCO) gala dinner in Durban as a guest.  

23 November 2014

Government wishes to advise members of the media about planned media briefings scheduled for the week of 24 – 29 November 2014.

Ladies and gentlemen of the media, we are pleased to present to you the first progress report on the performance of the ESEID Cluster in this, the fifth Administration.

20 November 2014

Prominent members in the field of communications particularly in Government Communication, Civil Society Organizations and community media will converge at DOC Parliamentary Imbizo Hall, Cape Town in two separate Imbizo sessions as referred above organised by the Department of Communications in partnership with Western Cape Provincial Government.