MultiChoice is extending the footprint of the South African public broadcaster’s 24-hour TV news channel, SABC News, on its DStv satellite pay-TV platform to the rest of the continent. There’s been
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Local mobile operators’ claims that rising input costs are fuelling contract price hikes are not reflected in these companies’ financial statements, says a research body. Research ICT Africa has put together a research brief that asks whether
Low pay, insufficient weekend remuneration and a lack of transport money are key reasons for why MTN staff say they have gone on strike this week. On Wednesday, hundreds of MTN staff from the company’s call centres and service
The growth of smartphones in South Africa is revolutionising e-commerce, but marketing bosses have yet to accept that it’s not only wealthy people who now have the gadgets. “Most marketers understand that their customers in the higher
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng says the public broadcaster will now launch with only five television channels once the long-delayed commercial start of South Africa’s switch from analogue to digital broadcasting begins. When
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
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