A lack of money and skills and the high cost of coal and diesel continue to plague Eskom, a civil society conference on the country’s electricity crisis heard on Wednesday. “Finances need to be improved to enable Eskom to carry on with
Author: Agency Staff
Is the SABC back to blacklisting press and commentators? That’s what South Africa’s media is wondering after the SABC withdrew an invitation to commentator Eusebius McKaiser to appear on a
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s appeal against the high court order that he be suspended pending a disciplinary inquiry, is set to be heard in the supreme court of appeal in Bloemfontein in September. This is after the case
The department of telecommunications & postal services has come out in strong support for the principle of network neutrality. Net neutrality is the concept of treating all Web traffic equally. Debates around net neutrality are raging in
South Africans love sport, sunshine and boerewors – but Web traffic shows that locals also love their online racy content, too. According to statistics from global online pornography provider Pornhub, South Africans have a deep relationship with the skin
The department of posts & telecommunications is slowly edging closer to completing a white paper on an information and communications technology (ICT) policy review for South Africa. The department presented
The Java programming language, which has just turned 20 years old, provides developers with a means to write code that is independent of the hardware it runs on: “write once, run anywhere”. But, ironically, while Java was intended to make
Unit 1 of the Koeberg nuclear power station outside Cape Town was returned back to service on Tuesday morning after a statutory three-month refuelling and maintenance programme. Unit 1, which
The ANC on Tuesday prevented a Democratic Alliance MP from discussing a legal opinion that communications minister Faith Muthambi did not adhere to the law regarding the SABC board
MTN has called for a legally binding arbitration process as it faces industrial action by the Communication Workers Union. MTN South Africa CEO Ahmad Farroukh told a delegation representing the striking employees that the process