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Cinema chain Ster-Kinekor has announced plans to build its first new IMAX theatre in Gauteng, at a Pretoria mall. It’s the second IMAX theatre to be opened in South Africa following the launch last year of the first such facility at the Gateway Theatre of Shopping

The Democratic Alliance’s “Ayisafani” election TV advertisement – originally pulled off the air by the SABC – had garnered more than half a million views on YouTube by the weekend. More than 555 000 people have viewed the ad on the social media site since it was posted on 8 April. It has more than 4 500 likes and 310 thumbs down

If there was anyone still doubting that the price war, triggered in part by communications regulator Icasa’s cuts in call termination rates, is starting to take its toll on South Africa’s mobile industry, they would have been disabused of that notion this week with the news that the Reunert-owned Nashua Mobile is to close down. As many as 600 people

Three hundred recordings later, the ZA Tech Show is still around. Joining Brett Haggard in this historic episode are Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Ben Kelly. They share news and opinions, and have a few laughs – just like the old days. The topic list includes the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S5, Nashua Mobile’s decision to close its

One episode before the big 300, Brett Haggard, Adam Oxford and Charlie Fripp gather for a discussion on the week’s hot tech happenings. Topics include the death of Windows XP, the Windows 8.1 update, the new Lenovo X1 Carbon, the Heartbleed flaw in OpenSSL, the right stance on movie piracy, Graphene

Google has launched an online South African Elections Hub as the country gears up to go to the polls in three weeks’ time. The Internet giant describes the hub as an online portal where voters, journalists and campaigners can easily track all the latest news, trends and information related to the 2014 general election, the fifth

Altech has bought the 50% (less one share) of NuPay that it doesn’t already own in a deal valued at R80m, the technology company owned said on Tuesday. The Altron-owned company bought its initial stake in NuPay in 2009. NuPay forms part of the Card Solutions division of Altech, which is to be integrated with the Bytes

South African-headquartered technology services group Dimension Data has upped in presence in West Africa by opening an office in Ghana. The group has been operating in the West African market for the past decade, with an operation in Nigeria, it said. In addition

The SABC’s newsrooms are in the grip of paranoia ahead of the general election with fears of eavesdropping and phone interceptions. This comes after editorial staff members were “reminded” by the co-operation’s chairperson, Ellen Zandile Tshabalala, that they should stop leaks because they were working in a national key point

Telkom has warned that fraudsters are targeting its customers using a deposit refund scam. Criminals deposit a stolen or counterfeit cheque into customers’ accounts, and then on a false Telkom letterhead inform them that the company has erroneously deposited the cheque as reimbursement for overpayment on their telephone account