Telkom and Solidarity appear headed for a showdown after the union accused the telecommunications operator’s CEO, Sipho Maseko, of “lying” when he said at a press conference on Thursday that Solidarity and another union, the South African Communications Union, were close to a wage
Author: Craig Wilson
The Communication Workers Union has reached a settlement with Telkom in the long-running wage dispute between the operator and trade unions. The CWU has accepted Telkom’s three-year wage offer. The other unions embroiled in the dispute have yet to sign, but Telkom says it expects them to do so shortly
Mindset Media Enterprises, the commercial arm of the not-for-profit Mindset Network, has applied for a pay-television licence to bolster its existing educational and health content offerings. However, Kagiso Media, which is also seeking a licence from the Independent Communications Authority
Siyaya, a 100% black-owned media consortium whose major shareholder is the Bakgatla Ba Kgafela tribe in the North-West province, has applied for a pay-television licence to offer African and South African content, along with football, all for monthly subscription rates starting from R70
Close-T Broadcast Network Holdings, which has applied to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) for a satellite pay-TV licence, wants to offer customisable bouquets of channels and content targeting the the gay, lesbian and transgender communities. Director
Kagiso Media wants to offer a pay-television platform that includes a high degree of local content to lower- and middle-income households as part of a bouquet that will cost consumers less than R240/month. The company is, however, concerned that delays in the migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television will further
South African billionaire, Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth, revealed on Monday that his company, Canonical, wants to raise US$32m by means of crowdfunding to build a mobile phone called the Ubuntu Edge that will have the computing clout to serve as a desktop replacement. But if
South Africa is about to get a significant new offering in broadcast television with the impending launch of OpenView HD, a new service backed by e.tv parent Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI). TechCentral has learnt that OpenView HD will offer between 12 and 20 high-definition and standard-definition
New start-up Laudable offers South African consumers an online shopping portal that brings together the products sold by both large and independent retailers and, in the process, gives those retailers useful information on just who’s buying what. Think of it as a South African version of Pinterest or The Fancy, where everything
Online and mobile transactions have for the first time surpassed card payments in Zimbabwe after recording 28,3% growth in the month of May. According to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s May 2013 monthly economic review, the value of mobile and Internet-based transactions rose from US$283,6m in April to