ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe and national spokesman Zizi Kodwa have tried and failed to control communications minister Faith Muthambi, former Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi claimed on Monday. Vavi told journalists that Kodwa was
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Apple dropped to fifth place in Chinese smartphone shipments, losing ground in its biggest overseas market in a fresh blow for the technology giant. iPhones made up 10,8% of devices sold in May, down from 12% a year earlier
Workers at communications regulator Icasa continued their picketing action on Wednesday. The strike entered its third day Wednesday as workers demanded salary increases and bonus pay back-dated to 2014. These issues stem from
Instant messaging app WhatsApp experienced downtime on mobile networks in Zimbabwe on Wednesday as protest action started taking root. Zimbabweans woke up to no WhatsApp connectivity through their mobile phones on Wednesday, a rare occurrence in
The SABC on Tuesday evening reacted to a media briefing by ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu saying it was “concerned” by some of the things Mthembu said. In a statement by SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago, the public broadcaster said that
The ANC has summoned communications minister Faith Muthambe and the SABC board to explain the recent censorship concerns at the public broadcaster. She and the board are expected to brief the ruling party on Monday
The high court in Pretoria has granted an urgent application by business rights group Afrisake to interdict the City of Tshwane from paying R950m to a service provider tasked with rolling out smart electricity meters across the city
BlackBerry will no longer manufacture the BlackBerry Classic, a beloved, updated model of the original that made the company a smartphone leader before Apple entered the scene. CEO John Chen introduced the Classic after joining the company in
Growth in real consumer spending will likely drop to near 0% in 2016, warned First National Bank chief economist Sizwe Nxedlana. He was commenting on the latest FNB/BER Consumer Confidence Index released on Tuesday, which
Nasa’s Juno spacecraft has begun to orbit Jupiter to probe the origin of the solar system, the US space agency has said. The US$1,1bn mission launched five years ago successfully entered the orbit of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, after a 35-minute manoeuvre