The Committee to Protect Journalists has criticised Uganda over social media shutdown on Thursday, during President Yoweri Museveni’s inauguration. Ugandans found themselves
Author: Agency Staff
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has mooted investments in the infrastructure and ICT sectors in South Africa and Africa. Ramaphosa was wooing potential investors at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Kigali in Rwanda
There will be no load shedding this winter and next summer, Eskom CEO Brian Molefe said at a system status briefing in Cape Town on Thursday. He said the power utility does not anticipate load shedding for the 2016/2017 financial year
Phuthuma Nhleko will stay on as interim executive chairman of MTN until he has resolved the dispute with Nigerian authorities over a record US$3,9bn fine imposed on the telecommunications group’s Nigerian
The ANC on Wednesday welcomed the decision of the SABC to play 90% local music on their stations from Thursday. ANC national spokesman Zizi Kodwa said the party welcomed the “radical decision” the 18 SABC radio channels
Public broadcaster the SABC says it will play 90% local music across its 18 radio stations from Thursday, 12 May. The move follows what the state-owned company says has been “extensive” engagements with music representatives
Government has expressed its desire to forsake revenue over broadband access as it races to meet its self-imposed goal of universal Internet by 2020.Mobile operators are awaiting policy direction on the availability of 800MHz spectrum, which
Global media and Internet giant Naspers has opened an office in San Francisco, the US city renowned for housing top internet giants such as Facebook and Google. Naspers’s opening of its San Francisco
Labour minister Mildred Oliphant conceded on Tuesday that a meeting between cabinet ministers and South Africa’s four banks had taken place. However, she didn’t want to provide further details as the ministers were still to report back to cabinet
The department of telecommunications & postal services has started to accelerate the rationalisation of state-owned entities to save money. Minster Siyabonga Cwele on Tuesday said that the programme to rationalise