{"id":184113,"date":"2017-07-06T15:38:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=184113"},"modified":"2017-07-06T15:38:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T13:38:03","slug":"icasa-ceo-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/184113\/icasa-ceo-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Icasa CEO suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Icasa has suspended its chief executive Pakamile Pongwana, pending the outcome of an internal disciplinary process.<\/p>\n<p>Pongwana took the reigns at the regulator from\u00a0Themba Dlamini in November 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Before ICASA, Pongwana was the managing executive for regulatory affairs at Vodacom.<\/p>\n<p>He also served\u00a0as deputy director general for telecommunications policy at the Department of Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Icasa\u2019s COO Willington Ngwepe will take the role of acting CEO until the processes have been concluded, said the regulator\u2019s council.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Icasa to investigate market priority and high data prices in SA\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/183297\/icasa-to-investigate-market-priority-and-high-data-prices-in-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Icasa to investigate market priority and high data prices in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icasa has suspended its chief executive Pakamile Pongwana, pending the outcome of an internal disciplinary process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":184115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-184113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184113","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=184113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184117,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184113\/revisions\/184117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}