{"id":9245,"date":"2009-08-18T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-18T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T09:48:00","slug":"icasa-councilor-selection-to-continue-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/9245-icasa-councilor-selection-to-continue-today.html","title":{"rendered":"ICASA councilor selection to continue today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee recently shortlisted nine candidates for the vacant Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) councilor position, selected from 86 CVs which were received.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates include Josephine Mabotja, David Vannucci, Dillo Lehlokoe, Zandile Mxaku, Edmund Baloyi, Luthando Mkumatela, Mthobeli Zokwe, William Stucke and Khulile Bogwana.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Alliance&rsquo;s Niekie van den Berg, Shadow Minister of Communications, said that he had focussed on the technical skills of candidates and asked the Committee to reconsider William Stucke, &ldquo;as the candidate had impressive technical skills.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The current ICASA Council is not known for its strong technical skills, and a technical person like Stucke will increase the capacity of the regulator to address certain complicated technical matters at council level.<\/p>\n<p>Members and the Parliamentary Committee are expected to hear from the candidates today after which a final decision is anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think should be the <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=187447\"><strong>new ICASA Councilor<\/strong><\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well known Internet personality William Stucke among shortlisted of candidates for ICASA board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245"}],"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=9245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}