New Communications DG named
Former Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) councillor Mamodupi Mohlala, who currently heads up the Pension Funds Adjudicator, has been appointed as director-general of the Department of Communications.
Mohlala, whose responsibilities at Icasa included regulatory and licensing activities in the broadcasting and telecommunications sector, will join the department on 1 September, the department said in a statement.
Mohlala is well known in the telecoms and communications arena having served as an ICASA Councilor for many years.
During her tenure at ICASA, Mohlala was no stranger to controversy and was accused of moonlighting through her legal practice. According to the Sunday Times “some of the work was for a telecoms industry player and might have constituted a conflict of interests, and contravened her councillor’s code of conduct and the ICASA Act.”
Mohlala was also heading the ICASA ADSL Regulations, seen by many as a poor set of regulations which have done little to improve the provisioning of ADSL in South Africa.
Mohlala is a qualified attorney, having studied at both the University of Swaziland and the University of the Witwatersrand. Mohlala was nominated for the position as ICASA councilor by Wireless Business Solutions, the iBurst holding company.
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