Author: Duncan McLeod

Cell C and MTN have chopped prepaid call rates again as South Africa’s mobile price war, which began in 2012, takes a fresh turn. Cell C announced that it is slashing its 66c/minute promotional prepaid offering to just 50c/minute

The Labia Theatre, an institution among cinemagoers in Cape Town, is in trouble and is turning to the Internet for help. Beginning this Thursday and running for 45 days, the four-auditorium Labia

Government’s centralised IT services and technology procurement organisation, the State IT Agency, will in future no longer report into the minister of public service and administration. Rather, it will in future report into the ministry of telecommunications and postal services, headed by Siyabonga Cwele. This is one of a

“There is no confusion in the ANC.” Those are the words telecommunications and postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele used in parliament this week to deflect criticism that President Jacob Zuma’s post-election decision to

Welcome to the latest episode of South Africa’s leading weekly technology podcast, TalkCentral. In the show this week, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about the proliferation of mobile payment applications

Former Telkom acting CEO and Cell C CEO Jeffrey Hedberg has been appointed as the new CEO of Mobilink, one of Pakistan’s largest mobile operators, parent company VimpelCom said in a statement on Friday. Hedberg succeeds Rashid Khan, who has decided to retire after almost 15 years in management positions

On Digital Media (ODM), the owner of pay-television operator StarSat (formerly TopTV), is making a more aggressive play into sports, reserving an entire channel number range to sports channels and launching a new sports

Online shoppers are happiest with Kalahari.com, a new survey has found. Research and consulting firm Columinate says Kalahari emerged as the clear winner in the survey, five points ahead of second-placed Yuppiechef

Telecommunications and postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele intends publishing a final policy on South Africa’s migration to digital terrestrial television within the next two weeks. Cwele made the promise in parliament on Wednesday, where he was presenting ahead of his department’s budget vote

Could MultiChoice subsidiary SuperSport find itself forced to make its exclusive sports content available to other broadcasters? Government may be taking a step in that direction after telecommunications and postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele said on Wednesday that he intends directing communications