Communications minister Faith Muthambi’s legal advisor, Lungisani Daniel Mantsha, has been struck off the Law Society of the Northern Provinces’ roll since 2007, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday. This revelation meant that any legal advice Mantsha
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Online transacting on classifieds sites for South Africans could become safer with the local launch of a dedicated escrow service. The service, dubbed Shepherd, is supported by Standard Bank and is designed to facilitate safer online trades as it eliminates the
Traditional teaching should happen in conjunction with technology solutions that benefit the process of learning and teaching rather than trying to replace it, says an expert. “I don’t believe that e-learning is the silver bullet. It is only a tool – albeit a powerful one. A
Executives at Telkom are taking home higher pay, while its lower level employees face job cuts and possible salary freezes. For the financial year to 31 March 2015, CEO Sipho Maseko’s total remuneration jumped to R12,3m from R11,7m in 2014, according to
Media24 CEO Esmare Weideman has apologised for Naspers’s role in apartheid. “We acknowledge complicity in a morally indefensible political regime and the hurtful way in which this played out in our newsrooms
The South African Revenue Service has served notice to organisations that flout the law with a message that the “game is over”. Sars on Wednesday debuted a new container scanner at the Cape Town port, f
More than 14 000 people have signed an online petition launched on Thursday against the Film and Publication Board’s (FPB’s) draft online regulations. “A new set of regulations threatens
The South African Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee hiked the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6%/annum, effective from 24 July 2015, its governor Lesetja Kganyago announced on Thursday. Banks will raise their prime lending and variable mortgage
The City of Cape Town is warning motorists not to drive while using cellphones as it ramps up its confiscation programme. On Tuesday, the city announced that it was nearing the 10 000 mark in terms of confiscated cellphones from drivers since 2012.
Young Jo’burgers in school and university still use libraries — but not necessarily for reading. It appears that while the number of people using library facilities are on the rise, it is mostly for studying, research or for access to the Internet, according to the