{"id":12349,"date":"2010-05-11T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-11T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T17:43:00","slug":"icasa-councilor-shortlist-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/12349-icasa-councilor-shortlist-unveiled.html","title":{"rendered":"ICASA councilor shortlist unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament&#8217;s communications portfolio committee on Tuesday announced the names of candidates shortlisted to be interviewed for four councilor positions on the council of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa).<\/p>\n<p>Icasa is responsible for the regulation of broadcasting, postal and telecommunications services in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Interviews are scheduled to start on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the committee said the shortlisted candidates included:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Joseph Lebooa;<\/li>\n<li>Prof Jacobus van Rooyen;<\/li>\n<li>Josephine Mabotja;<\/li>\n<li>Brenda Ntombela;<\/li>\n<li>Advocate Luthando Mkumatela;<\/li>\n<li>Kathryn Berman;<\/li>\n<li>William Currie;<\/li>\n<li>Kedibone Serero-Chiloane;<\/li>\n<li>Peter Zimri;<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Magomola;<\/li>\n<li>Mankakane Magagane<\/li>\n<li>Ntombizodwa (Miki) Ndhlovu; and,<\/li>\n<li>John Matisonn.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Committee chairman Ismail Vadi said the list was a &#8220;consensus&#8221; one, supported by the African National Congress and opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?230875-ICASA-councilor-shortlist-released\"><strong>ICASA councilor shortlist<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament&#039;s communications portfolio committee announced the names of candidates shortlisted to be interviewed for four councilor positions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}