The National Consumer Commission head is taking the trade & industry department to court after claiming she was effectively dismissed when her position was advertised. Mamodupi Mohlala-Mulaudzi claimed she only learnt of her contract’s termination
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SA has joined the international Jive radio astronomy research institute, the National Research Foundation (NRF) said on Sunday.
This marked a new level of partnership between Europe and South Africa in science, said NRF deputy CEO Gansen Pillay. “It is
Confronting mortality is a deeply personal quest that does not usually sit high on one’s to-do list. Death is scary so we avoid thinking about it. At some point, though, pragmatism usually wins. Those who can afford to call their lawyers and those who cannot pull out a notebook. It is decided: who inherits
There’s a lot to poke sticks at on this week’s ZA Tech Show as Arthur Goldstuck, Brett Haggard, Nic Callegari and Simon Dingle discuss BlackBerry 10, iTunes in SA, the Samsung Galaxy S3, Huawei’s new Android tablet, First National Bank’s geo-payments system, and much more
Almost 140 Absa employees are being forced to resign from the company in order to circumvent a mass retrenchment, trade union Solidarity said on Thursday. “Employees at Absa were notified by e-mail this week that they will be retrenched on 9 June. This came in spite of Absa’s continued denial that
SA’s fourth mobile operator, Telkom’s 8ta, has announced it is extending its 10GB, 3GB and 120GB data promotions until the end of March 2013. The prices of the promotions will remain the same throughout the extension period. The products only work on 8ta’s own network and do not extend to the network of its roaming partner
Smartphones and ordinary mobile phones have rapidly swelled the number of Internet users in SA in the past year. Consequently, Internet access is finally reaching the mass market in SA. This is the key finding of the Internet Access in SA 2012 study, conducted by World Wide Worx
Public protector Thuli Madonsela has agreed to consider the DA’s request for a probe into the Gauteng e-tolling contracts, the party said on Wednesday. “Madonsela has responded to my request for an investigation into the Gauteng e-toll contracts, including a possible link with arms deal corruption
Afrihost, reacting to recent reductions in Telkom’s wholesale broadband access rates to Internet service providers, is cutting the cost of its uncapped consumer digital subscriber line (DSL) products, but with a catch for new 4Mbit/s subscribers. All clients with existing 4Mbit/s uncapped accounts
And we’re back! This week, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson for a midweek edition of TechCentral’s TalkCentral podcast. In the show this week, we talk about First National Bank’s new geo-payments facility and consider what it means for the other banks and chat about Craig’s Mango flight to test WirelessG’s