/ 7 July 2006

Icasa wants to call in NIA

The embattled communications regulator wants the National Intelligence Agency to conduct a witch-hunt into recent leaks that have drawn attention to the dire state of the regulator.

Minutes of the June council meeting of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) report that its chairperson, Paris Mashile, ”has contacted the NIA to conduct an investigation on the leaks at Icasa”.

The requested investigation into leaks follows hot on the heels of a number of exposÃ