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Brett Haggard hosts Ben Kelly and David Greenway in a particularly news analysis-heavy episode of the ZA Tech Show podcast. Among other things, they discuss the most recent earnings announcements, Telkom’s new uncapped broadband prices, Nokia Music+

The opposition Democratic Alliance will write to Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to ask her to expedite her probe into 2012’s ICT Indaba after the Sunday Times published damning new allegations at the weekend that communications minister Dina Pule’s romantic partner benefited

South Africa will miss the 2015 deadline to convert its analogue broadcasting signal to digital, according to a report in Sunday’s Rapport newspaper. The delay will mean that analogue television will use up bandwidth which is necessary for faster Internet. The

An Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) councillor, who says he was hijacked, beaten and threatened with his life, and those of his family, claims it was meant to “persuade” him to drop an attempt to close down Wireless Business Solutions (WBS) because of the non-payment

TechCentral is thrilled to welcome cartoonist Jerm (also known as Jeremy Nell) to its editorial team. Jerm, whose current affairs cartoons are widely talked about, will contribute an exclusive weekly cartoon, called Backspace. Jerm is a geek at heart

As if hacker affiliations weren’t complicated enough, the so-called official Anonymous group of South Africa on Wednesday denied any alliance with Team GhostShell, the Internet group which on Tuesday posted just over 100 separate documents with private information from companies including Sasol

A former Eskom executive director on Wednesday shot down the energy provider’s proposal for an annual 16% electricity price hike for the next five years. Mike Deats said Eskom had failed to address some important issues in its Multi-Year Price Determination (MYPD) 3 report, which could

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela will release her report on the City of Johannesburg’s electricity billing system on 31 March, her office said on Wednesday. Madonsela’s intervention followed complaints by Johannesburg residents about exorbitantly high and incorrect bills. She called on the city

South Africa needs to be saved and freed from corruption, says Team GhostShell, and luckily it has assembled a “strong force” of hacktivists equal to the task. That force will now break into government information vaults and bring to light the evidence that will reveal corruption and nefarious doings

The Democratic Alliance wants a commission of inquiry to probe funding of The New Age newspaper, party leader Helen Zille said on Wednesday. “I have today written to President Jacob Zuma to request that he appoint a judicial commission of inquiry, headed by a retired judge, to investigate the funding of The