Icasa serves two masters

ICASA do squat all day long and then once every few years they decide to be a nuisance and visit IT stores ensuring devices have ICASA stickers on them. Other than that they're another government agency being paid to do nothing.
 
yes, mmmmm, like that will change anything, it will just make things more complicated and take longer... and that's the bottom line.
 
Scene 1

Somewhere on the top floor of ICASA's office tower

<phone rings>

ICASA Chairman (IC) stares at it in wonder. "Yoh, it works?" he thinks.

IC: Hello?
Minister Cwele (MC): "Hello, I have an urgent request that requires your immediate attention."
IC: "Sorry, Minister, but my team and I are very busy right now with an urgent request from Minister Muthambi (MM)."
MC: "I demand that you drop that and complete this request. It's important!"
IC: "Sorry, Minister, but MM also insisted that we complete her task ASAP. It's first come, first served."

<IC hears phone being slammed down on the other side>

IC sits back and surveys the urban sprawl from his eyrie.

<phone rings>

IC stares at it in amazement. "Yoh, twice in one day?" he thinks.

IC: Hello?
Minister Muthambi (MM): "Hello, I have an urgent request that requires your immediate attention."
IC: "Sorry, Minister, but my team and I are very busy right now with an urgent request from Minister Cwele (MC)."
MM: "I demand that you drop that and complete this request. It's important!"
IC: "Sorry, Minister, but MC also insisted that we complete his task ASAP. It's first come, first served."

<IC hears phone being slammed down on the other side>

IC sits back and smiles contentedly... "Another tough day at the office", he thinks!

And that's the art of doing f'all.
 
MickeyD said:
Scene 1

Somewhere on the top floor of ICASA's office tower

<phone rings>

ICASA Chairman (IC) stares at it in wonder. "Yoh, it works?" he thinks.

IC: Hello?
Minister Cwele (MC): "Hello, I have an urgent request that requires your immediate attention."
IC: "Sorry, Minister, but my team and I are very busy right now with an urgent request from Minister Muthambi (MM)."
MC: "I demand that you drop that and complete this request. It's important!"
IC: "Sorry, Minister, but MM also insisted that we complete her task ASAP. It's first come, first served."

<IC hears phone being slammed down on the other side>

IC sits back and surveys the urban sprawl from his eyrie.

<phone rings>

IC stares at it in amazement. "Yoh, twice in one day?" he thinks.

IC: Hello?
Minister Muthambi (MM): "Hello, I have an urgent request that requires your immediate attention."
IC: "Sorry, Minister, but my team and I are very busy right now with an urgent request from Minister Cwele (MC)."
MM: "I demand that you drop that and complete this request. It's important!"
IC: "Sorry, Minister, but MC also insisted that we complete his task ASAP. It's first come, first served."

<IC hears phone being slammed down on the other side>

IC sits back and smiles contentedly... "Another tough day at the office", he thinks!

And that's the art of doing f'all.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....couldn't have put better. I'm flabbergasted
 
I wish we could send a hat around the forum, each put in R100 and bet for how long this arrangement will last

I give it until May 2015.

BTW I am not an ICASA fan, but I have seen some really good work come out of ICASA. They are significantly under-resourced relative to the demands of their task and their work is critically under-mined by poor quality decisions at the ministerial level (decisions not made or being changed).
 
Spooner said:
ICASA do squat all day long and then once every few years they decide to be a nuisance and visit IT stores ensuring devices have ICASA stickers on them. Other than that they're another government agency being paid to do nothing.
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That sticker is quite important. Many international wireless devices use spectrum that is in South Africa used by commercial telecommunication services. One such device can easily cause severe impact on 100s of users for a service that they pay for.
 
km2 said:
Brilliant, but will we even notice the drop in ICASAs output.
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You don't want to be anywhere near ICASA when it drops its output (unless you're into faecal matter).
 
I suspect a court challenge as this is unconstitutional.
 
MickeyD said:
And that's the art of doing f'all.
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We've got a gov type operation next door to our office...pretty sure those guys average <6 hours of being physically present during work days (never mind effective hours of work).

Helps with the traffic situation though...they arrive late and leave early so their traffic never co-incidence with ours.

Said office isn't ICASA though - so only tangentially relevant.
 
@MickeyD, when you going to write scene 2? I am still trying to gather myself off the floor from scene 1.

:D
 
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