{"id":22928,"date":"2012-09-25T14:04:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T12:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=22928"},"modified":"2012-09-25T14:18:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T12:18:30","slug":"icasa-councilor-recommendations-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/22928\/icasa-councilor-recommendations-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"ICASA councilor recommendations revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications has submitted five candidates to the communications minister to be considered for the positions of ICASA councilors.<\/p>\n<p>According to the committee chairperson, Sikhumbuzo Kholwane, most of the candidates had received unanimous approval from the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Kholwane noted that for every vacancy, one and a half names had to be submitted to the minister. \u201cThis meant that the minister had to consider five names put forward by the committee, and of those five, three would be selected to fill the vacancies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The five nominations for the ICASA council were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ms Nomvuyiso Batyi (all members in favour);<\/li>\n<li>Mr Mkhululi Boqwana (all members in favour);<\/li>\n<li>Ms Nomonde Gongxeka (8 members in favour, three against &#8211; two DA and one COPE);<\/li>\n<li>Mr Manyara Rubben Mohlaloga (8 Members in favour, three against &#8211; two DA and one COPE);<\/li>\n<li>Ms Katharina Pillay (all members in favour).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ICASA releases shortlist for new council members\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/21032\/icasa-releases-shortlist-for-new-council-members\/\"><strong>ICASA releases shortlist for new council members<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"New ICASA councilors and SABC board member\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/56553-new-icasa-councilors-and-sabc-board-member.html\"><strong>New ICASA councilors and SABC board member<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ISPA slates ICASA for half-hearted effort\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/56117-ispa-slates-icasa-for-half-hearted-effort.html\"><strong>ISPA slates ICASA for half-hearted effort<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Talk, talk, talk, but no action whatsoever\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/columns\/55497-talk-talk-talk-but-no-action-whatsoever.html\"><strong>Talk, talk, talk, but no action whatsoever<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"ADSL regulations: ICASA asking to be ignored?\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/54745-adsl-regulations-icasa-asking-to-be-ignored.html\">ADSL regulations: ICASA asking to be ignored?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parliamentary portfolio committee for communications has forwarded its recommendation of candidates to serve on the ICASA Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,36,4225,4224,4222,4223,3983,4221],"class_list":["post-22928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-icasa","tag-katharina-pillay","tag-manyara-rubben-mohlaloga","tag-mkhululi-boqwana","tag-nomonde-gongxeka","tag-nomvuyiso-batyi","tag-sikhumbuzo-kholwane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22928"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22933,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22928\/revisions\/22933"}],"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=22928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}