SABC board chairman Ben Ngubane and his deputy, Thami ka Plaatjie, have resigned, the public broadcaster reported on Monday morning. SABC radio news quoted communications spokesman Siya Qoza as saying President Jacob Zuma needed to decide whether to accept the resignations or
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Anyone who spends any degree of time on the Internet will tell you that the first sign of a scam is a company with no website and no contact numbers. Try looking up information on Cherry Online Design, Ikamva ICT and Jugganaut – the members of the joint venture that won the multimillion-rand
The Free State will determine whether it received value for money in a provincial government website deal, premier Ace Magashule said on Wednesday. Magashule said, following public concerns, that his provincial government had to look at “whether we received value for money”
A total of 38 websites, and not only one, form part of the Free State’s multi-year integrated website project, the provincial government said on Tuesday. “In total, 38 reengineered websites form part of this project, including the provincial government’s utilisation of social media platforms such as
Banking group Absa has launched its first mobile bank branch on a trial basis in the rural town of Idutywa in the Eastern Cape, where the bank’s bricks-and-mortar branch was destroyed in a fire. The “Branch on the move” concept is designed to simulate
Copper theft sank to its lowest level since 2009 in January, the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) said on Monday. Sacci’s Copper Theft Barometer was R11,1m in January this year compared to R12,4m in December, Sacci said in a statement. “This is the lowest
The Free State provincial government spent R140m on its website, it was reported on Monday. Free State director-general Elzabe Rockman signed a three-year contract to redesign the website in 2011, the Sowetan newspaper reported. She had reportedly disputed
Draft legislation could pave the way for the state to e-mail road traffic fines to motorists, it was reported on Monday. Beeld reported that this had emerged from amendments to the Law on the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic (Aarto) published in the Government Gazette in
Basic education minister Angie Motshekga faces strong opposition if she installs fingerprint machines in schools, if the response from outraged teachers is anything to go by. Her critics include the two largest teacher unions, which this week questioned what impact such monitoring could possibly
Logicalis, a subsidiary of JSE-listed multinational IT group Datatec, has agreed to buy the European subsidiaries, excluding the UK business, of 2e2 for €24m (US$31m) in cash and new shares. Logicalis will acquire the business from the administrators of 2e2. In addition, the UK operations