Transforming state owned enterprises in the Global Age: lessons from broadcasting and telecommunications in South Africa.

Abstract

The close attention documents and analyzes the restructuring and transformation of southerly African broadcasting and telecommunications sector, in the light of sum of two units parallel trends:

* The globally-apparent challenges to the sector; and

* The impact of the neo-liberal agenda upon the part of the southerly African government towards the "structuring" of state-owned enterprises.

The 'crises' in public broadcasting and telecommunications sectors internationally are well documented. Globalisation, technological advances including digitalisation, gradual approach of both platforms and contented extreme financial constraint, and the attendant processe accompanying them are usually cited as the mainsprings of the predicament. In southerly Africa there is ...