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Submission to ICASA on Mobile Broadband Services
Our sole concern is the rights and interests of consumers (ie all citizens), especially the poor.
3 June 2021
Our sole concern is the rights and interests of consumers (ie all citizens), especially the poor.
HISTORY: Leon Louw’s early speeches, submissions, articles
Cabinet meetings must be fun. Ministers make mutually exclusive proposals to which all agree. No-one says “Hey, doesn’t that contradict what we’ve just decided?”
The only way to know that is to see where it will take the country on the annual Economic Freedom of the World Index (EFW)
The Competition Commission and the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) have tripped over each other trying to regulate the same thing: MultiChoice-DStv, its content providers and its customers.
The government is currently deciding South Africa’s long-term electricity policy.
Nationalisation of property, inefficient State-owned enterprises, raising the legal drinking age from 18 to 21, and higher taxes in a low-growth environment. These ideas have all been tried elsewhere.
SA’s unemployment rate is so catastrophic that a state of emergency should be declared.
In a democratic society, can government collude with citizens to abuse and undermine the freedoms ordinary South Africans died to ensure? Unfortunately, it can.
What, if anything, does our constitution tell us about anti-smoking laws and policies?