Parliament has selected the candidates it wants to interview for the two Independent Communications Authority of SA (ICASA) counsel positions that are due to fall vacant on 30 June.
All parties within the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications yesterday decided to nominate professor M Dumisa, T Dlamini, Fungai Sibanda, Nomnuyiso Batyi, Lehlang Sono, N Rau, and Thabo Makhakhe.
Interviews will take place from 2pm on 3 June, the same day that communications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri is due to give her department's budget vote speech.
Each candidate has approximately 40 minutes in front of the committee and the interviews will be conducted in public, in Parliament.
Two of the candidates will replace current ICASA councillors Tracy Cohen and Zolisa Masiza, who have decided not to stand for a second four-year term each. They will vacate their positions once their term of office comes to an end on 30 June.
Communications committee chairman Ismail Vadi says the procedure is that the committee selects the names of its preferred candidates. It is debated in the National Assembly and the list of one-and-a-half times the required nominees is then submitted to the communications minister for approval. If she approves, then the candidates are appointed.
"I am aware that time is running out here, but I am confident we will have the candidates in place by the required date," he notes.
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