{"id":5240,"date":"2013-06-13T03:23:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T03:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5240"},"modified":"2013-06-13T03:23:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T03:23:18","slug":"international-journalists-warned-about-equipment-outside-mandela-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5240","title":{"rendered":"International journalists warned about equipment outside Mandela hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mandela_press.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5065 alignleft\" title=\"mandela_press\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mandela_press-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mandela_press-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mandela_press.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>International journalists stationed outside the Pretoria hospital where former president Nelson Mandela is believed to be receiving treatment were warned about their equipment on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8230; Some broadcasters had some equipment which is not licensed,&#8221; said Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) spokesman Jubie Matlou.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Broadcasting equipment brought into the country had to be approved to prevent interference on frequencies used by local, licensed services, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Apparently what&#8217;s happened here, because of former president Mandela being ill, we have a lot of broadcasters coming into the country and bringing in equipment that has not been cleared,&#8221; Matlou said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;So, our inspectors could have picked up interference and complained.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Icasa issued the offenders with non-compliance warnings on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The journalists are camped outside the hospital where Mandela is thought to have been admitted early on Saturday morning in a serious, but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They are being advised to have that equipment cleared with the authority. From tomorrow [Thursday], we will be attending to those applications and helping them with what to do,&#8221; said Matlou.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An inspector would report back on the extent of the problem on Thursday and on how to mitigate and resolve it. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International journalists stationed outside the Pretoria hospital where former president Nelson Mandela is believed to be receiving treatment were warned about their equipment on Wednesday. &#8220;&#8230; Some broadcasters had some equipment which is not licensed,&#8221; said Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) spokesman Jubie Matlou. Broadcasting equipment brought into the country had to be approved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;International journalists warned about equipment outside Mandela hospital&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3077,1381,3076,327,12250],"class_list":["post-5240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-equipment","tag-hospital","tag-journalists","tag-mandela","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mandela_press.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5242,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5240\/revisions\/5242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}