Copper theft in the country declined from R23m in May to R17,9m in June, the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) said on Monday. Sacci said its Copper Theft Barometer showed a third substantial decline since the peak of R34,7m in March. Furthermore, Sacci’s new Copper Theft Volume Indicator
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The cold weather experienced across SA has resulted in a huge increase in national electricity expenditure, power utility Eskom said on Monday. CEO Brian Dames told a business executives’ meeting in Pretoria that the power consumption bill between 5pm and 9pm daily had been “staggering”. “This
As the Zambezi River surged past in the background, destined to plummet 100m down the Victoria Falls a mere 15 minutes’ walk away, the Zambian government last week launched GOtv in Livingstone, the country’s fourth largest city. GOtv is MultiChoice Africa’s new offering, which plays in the digital terrestrial television space. It offers consumers
In February, communications minister Dina Pule announced that the digital television switch-on was being moved from April to September. When a country switches from analogue television to digital, there are two important dates. The first is when digital television signals are launched and the second is when the analogue
Six months after Lulama Mokhobo took over as the group CEO of the SABC there is little indication that the state broadcaster can turn around its moribund news offering while rival e.tv takes the gap to bag viewers. Although the figures do fluctuate because of many variables, e.tv’s 7pm news
MWeb Business has cut uncapped broadband asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) prices, lowering the cost of 10Mbit/s uncapped and unshaped bandwidth by R500/month to R2 999 and reducing the price of its 1Mbit/s service to R759. Both products exclude Telkom line rental charges. At the same time
South Africans should expect more power cuts, as the distribution grid will gradually collapse from 2015 unless a maintenance backlog is addressed, an expert said on Thursday. “We are three years away from collapse,” Deon Louw, the deputy director of electro-technical services in Overstrand municipality
The ZA Tech Show geeks battle it out in a war of the smartphone keyboards in this week’s episode, in between a discussion about the latest technology news. The panel is made up of Arthur Goldstuck, Ben Kelly and Simon Dingle and they discuss BlackBerry, Jelly Bean, the war between Apple and Google and much more
Retail chip-and-PIN devices can easily be attacked, exposing banks, retailers and consumers to serious fraud around the world, a British security company has claimed at the Black Hat Security Conference taking place in Las Vegas in the US this week. Researchers
Altron subsidiary Bytes Technology Group has acquired Alliance Business Solutions, an Oracle software specialist, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition has been done through Bytes Systems Integration. The rationale for the deal