Earlier this week, the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi sent a policy directive to ICASA regarding the 30% local ownership rule through equity equivalent programmes. This has sparked renewed debate on Starlink and drawn backlash from political parties ANC and EFF who see it as undermining transformation. On 27 May 2025, the ad hoc committee for Communications and Digital Technologies asked the Minister what his engagement was with ICASA on appropriate course of action prior to the policy directive. Let us listen back to this….

In this hour, we discuss what are the implications of this policy directive on regulatory certainty and how policy intent translates into practice within South Africa’s existing legislative framework. To share her insights to these developments, we are joined by… 

Guest: Nomvuyiso Batyi - CEO of the Association of Communications and Technology (ACT)