The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has appointed Nkhetheleni Norman Gidi as its acting chief executive officer.<\/p>\n
Gidi will act as the industry regulator’s CEO from 1 September 2022 until 30 November 2022, or until a permanent appointment is made.<\/p>\n
He takes over from outgoing CEO Willington Ngwepe<\/a><\/strong>, whose last day will be 31 August. Ngwepe has taken a position<\/a><\/strong> as MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita’s chief of staff.<\/p>\n “On behalf of both myself and Council, I wish to extend my congratulations, support and well wishes to Adv. Gidi on his new role,” acting Icasa chairperson Charley Lewis said.<\/p>\n “I know that he can count on the cooperation and assistance of both staff at ICASA and the wider stakeholder community during this time.”<\/p>\n Gidi has been with Icasa for over 12 years, having joined as a senior manager for licencing in August 2009.<\/p>\n He has held several roles since, including general manager for licencing, executive for legal, risk, and CCC, and executive for policy research and analysis.<\/p>\n Gidi holds a Master of Law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and was admitted as an advocate of the High Court in 2009.<\/p>\n Icasa’s council expressed its confidence in Gidi, adding that he had contributed significantly to the work and goals of the Policy Research and Analysis Division, and Icasa as a whole.<\/p>\n Nkhetheleni Norman Gidi will be acting CEO until 30 November 2022, or until a permanent appointment is made. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":457617,"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":[25437,35,18090,80837,46745],"class_list":["post-457615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecoms","tag-charley-lewis","tag-headline","tag-independent-communications-authority-of-south-africa-icasa","tag-nkhetheleni-norman-gidi","tag-willington-ngwepe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457615"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457619,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457615\/revisions\/457619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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