SA cabinet minister Roy Padayachie was a committed patriot who died in the service of his country, the deputy minister of public service & administration said on Saturday. “I have lost a comrade,” deputy minister Ayanda Dlodlo said. Padayachie, the minister of public service & administration, was found dead in his hotel
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Government, political parties and trade unions on Saturday expressed sadness at the death of public service & administration minister Roy Padayachie. President Jacob Zuma said no words could express the loss that government and the people of SA felt at this loss. “It is sadly a great measure of his dedication and
Decisions taken on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) will have implications for how future infrastructure projects are financed, minister Collins Chabane said on Friday. It was necessary to guard against decisions and actions that might impact negatively “on our track record in the prudent
Battleship is big, dumb, witless, and cynically slapped together. It is also entertaining in the fashion of a film that you laugh at rather than with. Effectively a US$200m B-movie branded for a classic board game, it is such a grand monument to the worst excesses
Mobile operator MTN saw subscriber numbers in SA grow by 3,2% in the quarter ended 31 March 2012, although there was a decline in average revenue per user (Arpu) in both the prepaid and postpaid markets. The group as a whole reported subscriber growth of 3,7% for the quarter. The group recorded
Nigeria’s telecommmunications authorities Thursday threatened to impose sanctions on an affiliate of SA’s giant mobile phone service provider, MTN, over alleged poor service to subscribers. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) issued the warning to MTN Nigeria Communication in a
Alan Knott-Craig, the former iBurst MD and now CEO of social network MXit, has teamed up with writer and journalist Gus Silber to pen a new book on SA’s mobile industry, with a focus on the rise of MXit. The book, called Mobinomics: Mxit and Africa’s Mobile Revolution, looks at what mobile technology
MTN’s share price is likely to remain wobbly as jittery foreign investors face massive pressure from US authorities and lobby groups to quit their exposure in Africa’s R255bn cellphone giant because of its business activities in Iran. The company is in danger of being smacked with US sanctions for allegedly providing the Iranian government
The National Association of School Governing Bodies wants a ban on children using cellphones at SA’s schools, Beeld newspaper reported on Friday. According to the association, this was crucial to allow pupils to focus on their work, and to “protect them against irregularities on social networks”. Association
Mobile operator 8ta is in the market for a new marketing and sales executive. Stephen Blewett, who had filled this role until last week, has resigned. Blewett joined 8ta, which is the mobile arm of Telkom and SA’s fourth cellphone network operator, in 2009 as a contractor for an initial one-year term. The contract