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The problems South Africa faces require specialised technologies to help resolve them, public service minister Lindiwe Sisulu said in Cape Town on Tuesday. “In present day South Africa, we have challenges that require specific, and not generalised, off-the-shelf interventions to resolve, and so you fail

A Public Service Commission probe will determine the fate of officials involved in an alleged cover-up involving former minister Dina Pule, communications minister Yunus Carrim said on Tuesday. Replying in writing to a parliamentary question from Congress of the

Pick n Pay has grown online sales by 24% in the past year, the JSE-listed retailer said on Monday in notes accompanying its interim financial results for the half-year period ended 1 September. At the same time, the retailer has reported a 15,8% growth

All government computers need anti-pornography software installed on them, the African Christian Democratic Party said on Tuesday. “All government computers, whether desktops or laptops, should be fitted with software that prevents online gambling and pornography use,” ACDP Gauteng leader Lydia

Paris-based call centre operator The Webhelp Group says it plans to hire a thousand people in South Africa in the next 12 months as it makes its first big investment in the country. The investment will include the opening of a 7 500sq m call centre facility in Cape Town and a similar

Photocomment’s Tristan Hall joins Brett Haggard and Adam Oxford for a geek-out session that focuses on some of the most exciting hardware of the moment, as well as some of the more prominent tech news stories of the week the Galaxy S3, the ruggedised Galaxy S4 Active

The Democratic Alliance is consulting its legal team on possible action against ANC chief-whip Stone Sizani, MP Dianne Kohler Barnard said on Thursday. Kohler Barnard was on Wednesday cleared of breaching confidentiality related to misconduct

Democratic Alliance MP Dianne Kohler Barnard has been cleared of “breaching confidentiality” related to misconduct hearings against former communications minister Dina Pule. Parliament’s ethics committee confirmed this on Thursday after weighing claims that Kohler Barnard had posted

Radio Pretoria lost a legal battle with broadcasting regulator Icasa in the high court in Pretoria on Thursday. Judge Neil Tuchten dismissed the radio station’s application to be allowed to continue transmitting to its rural relay stations in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, North West and Mpumalanga on technical grounds

The number of employers inthe small and medium enterprise (SME) sector has risen by 6% year on year, according to the latest Absa SME Index. The index rose to its highest level in four years, though self-employment showed a slight decrease from the first quarter of 2013, Absa