{"id":132072,"date":"2016-07-31T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T07:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=132072"},"modified":"2016-07-31T09:33:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T07:33:03","slug":"icasa-boss-sacked-for-not-approving-gupta-bid-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/132072\/icasa-boss-sacked-for-not-approving-gupta-bid-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Icasa boss sacked for not approving Gupta bid – report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The acting chairperson of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has allegedly lost her permanent chairperson position because she did not approve a Gupta bid.<\/p>\n

In March, the telecoms regulator refused<\/strong><\/a> Infinity Media Network an individual commercial free-to-air broadcasting licence due to \u201cnon-compliance with the ITA and provisions of the ECA\u201d.<\/p>\n

Infinity Media Network, which owns ANN7, has many high-profile shareholders, including Oakbay Investments (the Gupta family\u2019s investment vehicle) and Mabengela Investments (of which Duduzane Zuma holds a 45% stake).<\/p>\n

The Sunday Times reported<\/strong><\/a> that former Icasa acting chairwoman Vuyo Batyi lost her promised job as Icasa chairperson because she would not bend to pressure from Communications Minister Faith Muthambi to approve a Gupta bid for a free-to-air 24-hour news channel.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Muthambi backtracked on her decision to appoint Batyi as chairwoman because of the\u00a0Infinity Media Network licence decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cBatyi confirmed this week she was taking legal action against Muthambi for failing to appoint her as chairwoman of Icasa, despite having given her a letter of appointment,\u201d the Sunday Times reported.<\/p>\n

The full report is available in the Sunday Times of 31 July 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n

More on the Gupta family<\/h3>\n

Public Protector gets R1.5 million to investigate the Guptas<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The acting chairperson of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has allegedly lost her permanent chairperson position because she did not approve a Gupta bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":34900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,36],"class_list":["post-132072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-icasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132074,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132072\/revisions\/132074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}