Chants of “voetsek” reverberated outside MTN’s head office on Wednesday as the Communication Workers Union (CWU) called for pay hikes at the telecommunications firm. Over 100 workers
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A team of students and professors at the University of the Witwatersrand searching for the secrets of the universe are also hoping to change the educational system of the country fundamentally with
In a heated energy budget session, the Democratic Alliance gave energy minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson a roasting and continuously disrupted her during her budget speech in the national
Electronic payments company Net1 UEPS Technologies has chosen to withdraw from an upcoming social grants tender process following years of controversy. In April last year, the constitutional
First National Bank (FNB) has recovered from a system outage that hit both its website and mobile banking application on Monday morning. “FNB can confirm that it had a brief interruption and
New rules regulating the use of remotely piloted aircraft systems, popularly known as drones, have been signed by transport minister Dipuo Peters and will officially be put into effect on 1 July 2015. The director of civil aviation, Poppy Khoza, said the South African Civil Aviation
New regulations are to be introduced at the beginning of July for the use of drones, the South African Civil Aviation Authority announced on Sunday. “I have the pleasure of announcing that South Africa
A project by retailer Ackermans to save electricity and reduce costs landed it a hot prize at the African Utility Week in Cape Town on Wednesday. The retailer was awarded the energy and water efficiency project of the year for its
Minister of public enterprises Lynne Brown ruled out the privatisation of basic services — such as the provision of electricity and water — and said load shedding will continue for three more years. Until the “end state” of Eskom is clarified
Eskom’s “big data” scientists are changing the way its decision makers operate, with mechanisms starting to predict when and where technical faults occur, delegates at the African Utility Week in Cape Town heard on Thursday. Speaking about the