Blue Label Telecoms and MasterCard plan to roll out point-of-sale (POS) devices to 22 000 small traders and rural shops in South Africa, allowing them to accept card payments for the first time. Blue Label already provides thousands of POS terminals in South Africa, which
Author: Editor
The Broadcasting, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers’ Union (Bemawu) accepted the SABC’s offer of an 8,5% wage increase on Tuesday. “Today we signed an agreement with the employer of an 8,5% across-the-board wage increase,” said Bemawu president Hannes du Buisson. The union declared
A former ANN7 editor has claimed assurances were given to president Jacob Zuma that the news channel would be pro-ANC, the City Press reported. “There was a lot of interference on an editorial level by Mr Atul Gupta,” former ANN7 editor Rajesh Sundaram told the newspaper
The Hawks suspect that a 54-member cybercrime syndicate due back in court shortly could have international links, City Press reported on Sunday. “It is big, very big and we suspect that they have links to other crime families operating in other countries,” Hawks investigator Oscar Mopedi told the newspaper
Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn on Friday said she plans to write to SABC interim chair Ellen Tshabalala asking that she intervene to stop acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng from implementing a policy that 70% of the broadcasters bulletins consist of “happy
I used to cycle for fun. Muddy bumps on rutted forest trails were exhilarating – and I got enough scratches to convince women that I was very manly. But then I moved to the seemingly all-concrete surroundings of suburban Johannesburg. My car took me where I needed to go – a boring state of affairs, but safe
Telkom Mobile is offering free Wi-Fi-based Internet access to South Africans for free as part of a promotion that ends on 15 December. The free access, of up to an hour a day, is available at 1 500 hotspots around the country and no data caps apply
Ninety percent of Gauteng’s road users owe government over R2bn in unpaid fines in just a two-year period due to end in December 2013, and the Democratic Alliance says the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act has failed to ensure that municipal authorities adjudicate
Former MTN group chief commercial officer Christian de Faria has been appointed as the new CEO of Bharti Airtel in Africa. De Faria “retired” from MTN in January after six years with the telecommunications group. According to a report in India’s
Tired of racking up huge international roaming costs for data? A local company, execMobile, has come up with a possible solution, though it’s still not exactly cheap. ExecMobile is offering business travellers an uncapped mobile data solution that they can use in 110 countries worldwide. Although it costs