Icasa adrift, FNB un-Steved

NEWSWATCH: Icasa is leaderless and clueless claims an outgoing councillor, reports Mail & Guardian, and FNB has to can its 'Steve' campaign, reports TechCentral.

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Mail & Guardian: Icasa is leaderless and clueless - outgoing councillor... Devoid of leadership, operationally inefficient and apparently unable to properly resolve professional and structure matters.

This is Icasa today, if outgoing councillor Joseph Lebooa is accurate in his claims. He was apparently 'assaulted' for doing his job, reports Mail & Guardian and says "a leadership gap stops the authority from resolving professional and structural matters".

In an exit report submitted to Parliament this week, and circulated to members of the parliamentary communications committee and the telecommunications and postal services committee, Lebooa laid bare a number of issues he said he had observed during his four years at Icasa. He is reported to have urged the parliamentary committees to review a number of matters

TechCentral: FNB told to un-Steve itself... According to TechCentral, "the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered First National Bank to withdraw its 'Steve' advertisements as they were harmful to children."

BD Live: ASA orders FNB to withdraw Steve ads... The ASA says that "the potential harm in the current matter lies in the possibility that children could interpret the advertising to effectively condone ridiculing anybody named Steve merely because of their name."