Porn on pause

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• BD Live: Icasa ordered to review decision to license porn channels... Broadcast regulator Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has been ordered to review its decision to license three porn pay channels.

  The BD Live report says "Handing down judgment in the Western Cape High Court yesterday, Judge Lee Bozalek said the decision taken last year by Icasa to grant three broadcast licences to On Digital Media (ODM) had been reviewed and set aside."

  

  SABC chairperson Ellen Tshabalala has been accused of claiming qualifications she had from the University of South Africa (Unisa). The university revealed in July that she had no qualifications with the institution. (Image: SABC)

• Mail & Guardian: Judgment reserved in SABC chair's court case... According to the Mail & Guardian report, the "court action against the inquiry looking into the SABC chairperson's qualifications is a 'red herring' to delay the process, say parliamentarians."

  SABC chairperson Ellen Tshabalala has been accused of lying about her qualifications... Mail & Guardian reports "the court application was brought by Tshabalala's lawyers after months of failing to produce the qualifications she claimed she had from the University of South Africa (Unisa), despite the university revealing in July that she had no qualifications with the institution. In fact, the paper reports, that not only did she not have any qualifications from the institution, but "Tshabalala ... failed badly at most of them, yet put them on her CV anyway".

• news24.com: Parly: Mbete social media accounts fake... It appears that National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete does not have any social media accounts in her name and so you can't bet on any Mbete tweets you might see.