Author: Duncan McLeod

Thami Ntenteni’s appointment to the board of the Media Development and Diversity Agency last week may be unlawful, Democratic Alliance MP Gavin Davis has said. This is because Ntenteni

Communications minister Faith Muthambi on Tuesday laid into her critics in parliament, accusing MPs of flouting the constitutional separation of powers over legal opinion they sought over her decision

Telkom has hit back at claims on Monday by trade union Solidarity that its planned restructuring will target white employees by using race when determining who its lets go of as it seeks reduce the size

The February 2013 bail hearing of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius was a defining moment for Twitter in South Africa. The event marked the biggest-ever spike in Twitter traffic in the country as users

It’s been nine years since Jack Dorsey sketched out with pen and paper the idea for a group SMS service, an idea that would go on to become Twitter. It’s no exaggeration that the social network has

Telkom has failed to reach agreement with any of the three labour unions it recognises over its latest restructuring plans, setting the scene for potential acrimony. Telkom’s three unions – Solidarity, the South African Communications Union and the

President Jacob Zuma has been aware of Telkom’s plans to let go of as many as 7 800 employees for some time and has voiced no objections to the company’s plans, trade union Solidarity said on Friday. Solidarity is one of three labour unions

US-based technology firm Novatel is offering shareholders of JSE-listed DigiCore Holdings R4,40/share, or R1,1bn in total, to buy the business. This offer has sent Digicore’s share price up by more than 15% in morning trade on Friday. The R4,40 offer is

Since announcing on Monday that it had decided to approve Vodacom’s R7bn acquisition of Neotel, communications regulator Icasa has gone to ground, not revealing – as it had promised to

Residents of the prominent Johannesburg suburb of Blairgowrie have voted overwhelmingly in favour of telecommunications start-up Vumatel rolling out fibre-to-the-home broadband in