Colin Hickling – The Mail & Guardian

/ 4 March 2008

Sentech cash pinch ‘frustrates’ minister

Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri has criticised the Treasury for failing to finance state-owned signal carrier Sentech, Business Day reported on Tuesday. Treasury officials ”just don’t understand” the vital role Sentech could play in lowering South Africa’s exorbitant cost of communications, the newspaper quoted the minister as saying.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 11 September 2007

Sentech complains of lack of money to do job

State-owned broadcast signal distributor Sentech is protesting that it simply does not have enough money to do its job properly. Writing in the company’s annual report, chairperson Colin Hickling points out that it has been proved impossible to roll out a national broadband radio network until extra funds are received from the government.

By Michael Hamlyn