{"id":548597,"date":"2006-04-24T08:33:32","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T08:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548597-disputed-icasa-bill-to-be-reworked.html"},"modified":"2006-04-24T08:33:32","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T08:33:32","slug":"disputed-icasa-bill-to-be-reworked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548597-disputed-icasa-bill-to-be-reworked.html","title":{"rendered":"Disputed Icasa bill to be reworked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Mbeki, who received representations from different organisations urging him not to sign the \u201cunconstitutional\u201d bill into law, has referred it back to Parliament for reworking. <!--par0--><\/font><\/p>\n<p><!--par1--><font size=\"2\">The bill changed the appointment and dismissal procedures for members of the council of Icasa, making Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe Casaburri responsible for these procedures rather than Parliament.<!--par0--><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><!--par1--><font size=\"2\">The bill would also have ensured the Icasa chairman was accountable to the minister rather than Parliament for his performance.<!--par0--><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><!--par1--><font size=\"2\">\u201cThese changes would have destroyed the constitutionally guaranteed independence that Icasa enjoys from the ministry,\u201d Freedom of Expression Institute executive director Jane Duncan said.<!--par0--><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><!--par1--><font size=\"2\">\u201cHad the bill been signed into law, the institute believes it would have been subject to constitutional challenge for violating the independence of Icasa.\u201d <!--par0--><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><!--par1--><!--par0--><\/font><\/p>\n<p><!--par1--><font size=\"2\">Duncan expressed concern, however, about what she termed the \u201cpersistent tendency\u201d of the communications department to draft constitutionally dubious legislation.<!--par0--><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><!--par1--><font size=\"2\">Democratic Alliance communications spokeswoman Dene Smuts said she was \u201cdelighted\u201d by the president\u2019s decision.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=42009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Freedom of Expression Institute has welcomed President Thabo Mbeki\u2019s decision not to sign the controversial Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) Amendment Bill into law on the grounds that it may be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548597"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}