{"id":205868,"date":"2017-10-18T09:44:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T07:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=205868"},"modified":"2017-10-18T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T07:44:10","slug":"communications-watchdog-gets-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/205868\/communications-watchdog-gets-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Communications watchdog gets new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has appointed Willington Ngwepe as its chief executive officer.<\/p>\n<p>Ngwepe has been acting CEO at ICASA since 7 July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe joined ICASA as Chief Operations Officer in September 2014. In this role, he has been part of the ICASA leadership team that oversaw the implementation of ICASA\u2019s organisational realignment in 2015,\u201d said ICASA.<\/p>\n<p>ICASA said Ngwepe\u2019s experience and stakeholder-centric approach has equipped him to provide the administrative leadership the authority needs.<\/p>\n<p>Ngwepe holds B.A (Law), LLB, and LLM (Communications Law) degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/184113\/icasa-ceo-suspended\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Icasa CEO suspended<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has appointed Willington Ngwepe as its chief executive officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":7238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-205868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-icasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205868","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=205868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205874,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205868\/revisions\/205874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}