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Parliament whips ICASA
“It was not a proper decision, we are filled with remorse and regret, we fell off our horse; it was a bad experience,” Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) chairman Paris Mashile said yesterday about the Vodacom listing debacle.
Mashile's words of contrition, which were repeated several times, related to the berating the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee delivered to ICASA for its last-minute change of mind in May. The telecommunications regulator's decision almost derailed the R20 billion listing of the country's largest cellular network operator.