{"id":62051,"date":"2014-07-04T17:11:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=62051"},"modified":"2014-07-04T17:12:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:12:37","slug":"icasa-not-switching-departments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/62051\/icasa-not-switching-departments\/","title":{"rendered":"Icasa not switching departments"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) will remain under the Department of Communications (DoC), the DA shadow minister of communications, Marian Shinn, posted to Twitter on Friday, 4 July 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cComms minister Muthambi states in parliament that ICASA stays with Dept of Comms, not going to Telecomms,\u201d Shinn tweeted.<\/p>\n

Shinn\u2019s update followed reports citing \u201ca highly placed source with knowledge of the development\u201d that Icasa would report to the new Ministry of Telecommunications and Postal Services.<\/p>\n

\"Icasa<\/a>

Marian Shinn relaying words from Faith Muthambi<\/p><\/div>\n

Among the more controversial announcements from President Jacob Zuma when he revealed his new Cabinet, was the creation of the new ministry.<\/p>\n

Commentators pointed out that the existence of both a Ministry of Communications and Ministry of Telecommunications and Postal Services was very similar to the pre\u20131994 cabinet.<\/p>\n

They also warned that the change could result in the existing Ministry of Communications becoming a Ministry of Propaganda, expressing concern over the fact that the SABC and Icasa reported to the same minister as GCIS and Brand SA.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on MyBroadband<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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E-commerce to be regulated by Icasa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DA shadow minister of communications has reported back from parliament on Icasa\u2019s fate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26,36],"class_list":["post-62051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline","tag-icasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62051","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62057,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62051\/revisions\/62057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}