The South African Press Association (Sapa), the news agency that has been in operation for the past 76 years, will close its doors at the end of March, its editor, Mark van der Velden, announced on
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Vodacom is pitching its first properly low-cost 4G/LTE smartphone, the Smart 4 Turbo, in the hope it will enjoy the same success as its low-cost, own-branded 3G devices such as the Smart Kicka smartphone
JSE-listed Net1 UEPS Technologies, the company running South Africa’s disputed social grants system, on Thursday announced plans to expand its operations in the UK with the establishment of a new subsidiary called Zazoo. Zazoo, headed by MD
MTN has appointed Suren Sooklal as group chief business risk officer, replacing Shauket Fakie, who is retiring after eight years with the group. Sooklal will take on the role effective immediately, MTN said. Sooklal joins MTN from PricewaterhouseCoopers
A week after announcing it was sourcing local content for its online video-on-demand platform through the SABC, Times Media Group’s Vidi service has signed a deal with BBC Worldwide, the commercial
Telkom warned on Tuesday that a recruitment scam is promising successful candidates a paid internship at the company but actually fleecing job seekers out of money. The fraudsters promise those who are successful
Microsoft has launched its latest entry-level smartphone in South Africa. Aimed at the mass market, the Windows Phone-powered Lumia 535 will cost from a recommended retail price of
The Democratic Alliance has called for the department of communications, the new portfolio created after last year’s general election – when President Jacob Zuma split the old communications department in two – to be disbanded
A new, South African-developed smartphone application tells you when to fill up your car and how much it’s going to cost you, with the idea that it will save consumers money. The app, called FillApp – and developed by a company
The department of communications has spent “disproportionately” more than R10m on advertising in The New Age newspaper in the last financial year, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. According