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The SABC has denied it’s been paying the legal fees of its chief operating officer and former chair. On Monday, the Democratic Alliance accused the SABC of paying Hlaudi Motsoeneng and Zandile Tshabalala’s recent legal fees. Communications minister

A US court has dismissed a class action against Net1 UEPS Technologies, which manages South Africa’s social grant payment system. This is according to a market update from Net1, which is listed on the

SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng will challenge the public protector’s powers in a matter to be heard in the supreme court of appeal in Bloemfontein on Friday. His lawyer, Zola Majavu, said the heart of the matter was whether public protector Thuli Madonsela’s

The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance urged the public to comment on e-toll regulation changes on Friday. This is in response to a notice released by the department of transport in the Government Gazette, in which it requested the public to comment on proposed changes to Gauteng’s

The number of monthly active users on mobile social network Mxit has fallen from 4,9m in 2014 to 2,7m in 2015. This is according to the South African Social Media Landscape 2016 report from World Wide Worx and monitoring company Fuseware. This means that Mxit

Eskom’s prepaid vending systems were experiencing technical problems on Thursday, the utility said. “Eskom prepaid customers may have been experiencing a slow, intermittent, or offline service when buying prepaid electricity,” Eskom said in a statement

A new application hopes that South Africans will bury paper till slips to make smartphones more integral to the e-shopping environment. PocketSlip is an application that records your shopping expenses, much like a digital till slip. “We have been speaking

In spite of disputes about race and transformation, Stellenbosch University is cranking out research at such a rate that it climbed 88 places on a worldwide university ranking released on Tuesday. It came in at 302 on the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings 2015/2016

A subsidiary of French telecommunications company Orange plans to launch its own video-on-demand (VOD) offering in South Africa next year. Orange Horizons currently operates a retail business in South Africa where it sells smartphones and devices via its local

Unofficial imports are hurting sales of a new Indian phone brand in the country, says a local representative. Unofficial, grey or parallel imports are typically cheaper than officially licensed products because they are void of aspects such as warranties or free screen repair programmes