{"id":35027,"date":"2013-04-07T11:40:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T09:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=35027"},"modified":"2013-04-08T09:46:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T07:46:19","slug":"what-dina-pule-does-not-want-south-africa-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/35027\/what-dina-pule-does-not-want-south-africa-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"What Dina Pule does not want South Africa to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister <a title=\"Dina Pule\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2128-Dina-Pule\">Dina Pule<\/a> has not answered a single parliamentary question this year. This is according to DA Shadow Minister of Communications <a title=\"Marian Shinn\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/4592-Marian-Shinn\">Marian Shinn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister Pule has repeatedly demonstrated her ineptitude as a Cabinet Minister and her clear aversion of parliamentary oversight is further reason for President <a title=\"Zuma\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2611-Jacob-Zuma\">Zuma<\/a> to fire her,\u201d said Shinn.<\/p>\n<p>Shinn said that the DA will write to the Speaker of the National Assembly, <a title=\"Max Sisulu\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/7974-Max-Sisulu\">Max Sisulu<\/a>, and the Leader of Government Business, <a title=\"Kgalema Motlanthe\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2544-Kgalema-Motlanthe\">Kgalema Motlanthe<\/a>, to request that they intervene to ensure that Minister Pule fulfils this key responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot a single one of the 29 questions posed to Minister Pule in 2013 \u2013 18 questions by the DA and 11 by other opposition parties &#8211; have been answered,\u201d Shinn explained.<\/p>\n<p>The questions posed by the DA include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The status of negotiations or legal challenges surrounding the removal of the head of <a title=\"SABC\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/5190-South-African-Broadcasting-Corporation-%28SABC%29\">SABC<\/a> News and Current Affairs and the Chief Financial Officer;<\/li>\n<li>Whether a forensic investigation was commissioned into the financial mismanagement at USAASA;<\/li>\n<li>Whether bonuses were paid to senior officials in her Department or any of the entities reporting to the Department;<\/li>\n<li>How many companies or entities had approved operation licenses issued by ICASA in 2012, how many are currently up to date with license payment and how many are in arrears;<\/li>\n<li>The cost of her department&#8217;s failed defence against eTv&#8217;s court challenge on the the set-top box access control system;<\/li>\n<li>The outcome of the National Intelligence Agency&#8217;s investigation into ICASA councillor <a title=\"William Stucke\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/6340-William-Stucke\">William Stucke<\/a>; and<\/li>\n<li>When the task team of the ICT\u2019s July 2012 Indaba met, as well as its outcomes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shinn added that other important questions that remain unanswered are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whether her department has informed the <a title=\"International Telecommunications Union\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/3240-ITU-International-Telecommunications-Union\">International Telecommunications Union<\/a> about the fact that South Africa would not meet the cut-off date for analogue transmissions; and<\/li>\n<li>Whether progress has been made with the finalisation of the specifications for set-top box manufacturing and when manufacturing of decoders will commence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that Minister Pule is trying to hide information from Parliament. This is unacceptable and an affront to Parliament\u2019s constitutionally enshrined mandate to hold the executive to account,\u201d said Shinn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the latest blunder by a Minister who is clearly out of her depth. South Africa deserves a capable communications minister. We re-iterate our call for Dina Pule to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband was previously promised an interview with Pule to discuss issues related to the DoC, but the department has reneged on this promise.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Dina Pule articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Pule to be investigated by Parliament\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/34496\/pule-to-be-investigated-by-parliament\/\"><strong>Pule to be investigated by Parliament<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DoC calls for Sunday Times apology\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/34226\/doc-calls-for-sunday-times-apology\/\"><strong>DoC calls for Sunday Times apology<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pule victim of political smear campaign: spokesperson\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/34203\/pule-victim-of-political-smear-campaign-spokesperson\/\"><strong>Pule victim of political smear campaign: spokesperson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"New revelations in Dina Pule saga\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/34196\/new-revelations-in-dina-pule-saga\/\"><strong>New revelations in Dina Pule saga<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Incompetence and corruption: the twin evils of Dina Pule\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/34270\/incompetence-and-corruption-the-twin-evils-of-dina-pule\/\"><strong>Incompetence and corruption: the twin evils of Dina Pule<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister Dina Pule has not answered a single parliamentary question this year, says DA Shadow Minister of Communications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1875,1329,1083,26,83,2093],"class_list":["post-35027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-anc","tag-da","tag-dina-pule","tag-headline","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-marian-shinn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35027"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35029,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35027\/revisions\/35029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}