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Malatsi’s ‘faster, cheaper internet for all’ Budget is a gamechanger | SA News

Minister Solly Malatsi has announced that he is delivering on his promise to make internet access in South Africa faster and cheaper for all people, and the DA proudly welcomes this.

In his Budget Speech, tabling the Department of Communications & Digital Technologies plan for the coming year, Malatsi has announced plans for legislative amendments that will allow investment in telecoms infrastructure, with equity equivalents.

The Minister’s implementation of equity equivalents removes the barrier to investment that has kept South African internet expensive and kept it out of rural and poorer communities. This is the boldest move in telecoms expansion South Africa has seen in…

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