Cape Town - Security Minister David Mahlobo on Wednesday brushed aside an opposition call to resign over the jamming of the cellphone signal during the State of the Nation address, saying he could not be held responsible for an operational error.
Mahlobo told the National Assembly that since he had not ordered the signal blocking a question from Democratic Alliance intelligence spokesperson on whether he was prepared to quit was therefore "irrelevant".
"There was no executive authority... we have indicated that in terms of operational efficiency an error occurred, we regretted the error and on that basis we indicated our apologies that there was no intentional disruption of signal," Mahlobo said.