ICASA chairperson sleeping through his days?
With all the controversy about the previous draft of the ICASA bill and the potential interference with what many believe is the constitutionally guaranteed independence of ICASA by the government, you would expect to find ICASA’s chairperson hard at work carrying out ICASA’s mission as our telecommunications and broadcasting regulator. Instead, it appears he may be spending his days sleeping with his feet up or spending time on private work. According to Business Day’s The Weekender:
PARIS Mashile, chairman of Icasa, the powerful broadcasting and telecoms regulator, is often asleep in his office during the day, with his shoes off, according to his former executive secretary. In her exit interview, Shameen Naidoo describes Mashile as a person who, in the few hours he was both at Icasa and awake, did his own private work and ignored his official correspondence for weeks at a time.
The exit interview was leaked to this blog yesterday, shortly after Ms Naidoo left office at Icasa.
If these allegations are true it would severely undermine ICASA’s position as an important watchdog and safeguard against abuses of our telecommunications and broadcasting framework.
Meanwhile an amended ICASA bill has been approved by Parliament. The current version waters down the control the Communications Ministry has over the appointment of ICASA councillors.
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