Department of Communications and Digital Technologies

Department of Communications and Digital Technologies
List
  • 10 other official names:
  • Departement van Kommunikasie (Afrikaans)
  • UmNyango wezokuThintana (Southern Ndebele)
  • ISebe lezoNxibelelwano (Xhosa)
  • uMnyango wezokuXhumana (Zulu)
  • LiTiko leTekuchumana (Swazi)
  • Kgoro ya Dikgokagano (Northern Sotho)
  • Lefapha la Dikgokahano (Sotho)
  • Lefapha la Ditlhaeletsano (Tswana)
  • Ndzawulo ya swa Vuhlanganisi (Tsonga)
  • Muhasho wa Vhudavhidzani (Venda)
Agency overview
Formed1910 (1910) (original form)
2019 (2019) (current form)
JurisdictionGovernment of South Africa
HeadquartersHatfield, Pretoria
Ministers responsible
Child agencies
Websitedcdt.gov.za

The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (formerly the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services and the Department of Communications) is one of the departments of the South African government. It is responsible for overseeing the South African communications, telecommunications, broadcasting, and postal industries.

The political head of the department is the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, who is assisted by a deputy minister. As of August 2021 the minister is Khumbudzo Ntshavheni and her deputy is Philly Mapulane.

In 2014, then-President Jacob Zuma renamed the original Department of Communications to the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services, at the same time creating a new Department of Communications with different responsibilities, including propaganda.

In June 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the two departments would be merged to create the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies.

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