South Africa: DA Will Go to Court On Icasa Delays

press release

The Democratic Alliance will today submit an urgent high Court application to compel ICASA to hear the DA's complaint against the SABC without any further delay, and to give us a decision on the matter immediately.

ICASA has not fulfilled its regulatory and constitutional obligations with regards to the handling of our complaint. The unavoidable impression we are left with is that ICASA is trying to deliberately delay dealing with this complaint so that the DA's election adverts are kept off the air for longer. This is clearly prejudicial to the DA's election efforts, and only serves to advantage the ANC.

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