{"id":5275,"date":"2013-06-13T07:56:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T07:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2013-06-13T07:56:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T07:56:37","slug":"media-on-mandela-watch-warned-over-unlicensed-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5275","title":{"rendered":"Media on Mandela watch warned over unlicensed equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/jasonequipment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5276\" title=\"jasonequipment\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/jasonequipment-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/jasonequipment-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/jasonequipment.jpg 464w\" 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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c&#8230; Some broadcasters had some equipment which is not licensed,\u201d said Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) spokesman Jubie Matlou.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cApparently what\u2019s 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,\u201d Matlou said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSo, our inspectors could have picked up interference and complained.\u201d\u00a0 He said Icasa issued the offenders with non-compliance warnings on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThey 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,\u201d said Matlou.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/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. &nbsp; \u201c&#8230; Some broadcasters had some equipment which is not licensed,\u201d said Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) spokesman Jubie Matlou. &nbsp; Broadcasting equipment brought into the country had to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Media on Mandela watch warned over unlicensed equipment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3089,2956,3088],"class_list":["post-5275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-icasa","tag-spying","tag-unlicensed-media-equipment"],"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\/jasonequipment.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","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=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5278,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions\/5278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}