Television in South Africa turns 40 years old on Tuesday. The SABC TV service marks its 40th anniversary since the very first nationwide broadcast on 5 January 1976 when Dorianne Berry and Heinrich Marnitz welcomed viewers to the “opening night” of TV in the country
About 200 000 Vodacom accounts have been affected by a technical glitch that resulted in customers being incorrectly double debited twice last week. This is according to an updated statement from Vodacom on Tuesday, as the company continues processing refunds to affected customers.
South Africa is likely to fail in its quest to develop its nuclear energy capacity, according to emerging markets economist Peter Attard Montalto of Nomura. Montalto said that if the 9,6GW nuclear procurement programme does see the light of day, it will be a “slimmed down programme spread
In a day in which the penny dropped on racism in South Africa with the Penny Sparrow “monkey” scandal gripping the country, Standard Bank dropped another bomb, announcing the
The class of 2015 has one more sleep until the department of basic education starts releasing matric results eight of the nine provinces from midnight on Tuesday. You can also check your matric results from Tuesday here. Basic Education Minister Angie
Vodacom has not revealed what caused an error that led to several of its customers being double debited last week. Vodacom sent an SMS to customers on Friday afternoon informing them that the company was aware that some accounts had been debited twice owing to a “technical glitch”. The company promised to
The Eskom manager who brought Majuba back to operation after the silo collapse is replacing Roman Crookes as Medupi’s project director with immediate effect. Eskom on Monday appointed Phillip Dukashe to replace Crookes to run Medupi power station without a handover from Crookes
Energy analyst Chris Yelland has expressed concern over the resignation of Roman Crookes, project director at the Medupi power station. Yelland said Crookes’s departure “obviously raises concerns about the institutional memory within Eskom as the engineering, procurement and construction main
If you were experiencing any problems with the messaging service WhatsApp on New Year’s Eve, you were not alone. Users across the globe complained that their WhatsApp messages weren’t going through. Some of them thought that is was connection
South Africa’s third largest mobile network, Cell C, said on Wednesday that its board has accepted an offer from Blue Label Telecoms to acquire 35% of the company for R4bn. The boards of Cell C and its
