More than three in four South Africans who were asked for a bribe ended up paying one, according to a survey conducted by the Ethics Institute of South Africa. The average traffic bribe costs around R200, it found, while most bribes were
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Vodacom will no longer acquire Neotel’s spectrum. Instead, the mobile operator has agreed that Neotel will offer a “roaming agreement” to all the mobile network operators. The surprise development comes after Vodacom and Neotel asked the
Global smartphone shipments are losing steam, but lower-priced devices and the African market are likely to be engines of growth, says an international research organisation. International Data Corp last week forecast that global smartphone growth
Yet another competitor is poised to enter the increasingly crowded video-on-demand market in South Africa. However, the new player, called SAVuka TV, is promising something a little
Africa received a US$10bn boost of help to build out its renewable energy sources, with Germany leading the advanced economies in its contribution. Germany’s environmental minister, Barbara Hendricks, made the announcement on Monday on the
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s lawyer, Zola Majavu, told journalists that the corporation knew his client did not have a matric certificate when he was first hired in 1995. Majavu, speaking at Motsoeneng’s disciplinary hearing
Information and communications technology spending in South Africa is forecast to grow by 2,6% year-on-year to R26,6bn in 2016. This is according to International Data Corp, which says that mobile devices will largely be responsible for growth in this sector
Organisations challenging the new Broadcasting Amendment Bill, promised to go as far as the constitutional court if need be. The bill, proposed by communications minister Faith Muthambi
he Broadcasting Amendment Bill, which will essentially turn the SABC into a state-controlled broadcaster, is bad news for South African democracy. So believes Democratic Alliance MP Phumzile
Nigerian regulators’ decision to reduce MTN’s multibillion-dollar fine is a “positive” move and if the penalty was “arbitrary”, then the company would have turned to the courts. This is according to a board member for the South Africa-Nigeria