From Wednesday until Friday this week, the Dome in Randburg, Johannesburg, will play host to Mediatech Africa, the biennial technology trade show that brings together consumers and companies involved in the live entertainment, audio visual and broadcasting arenas
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Cell C’s majority shareholder, Dubai-based Oger Telecom, has earmarked an equity investment of US$350m (R3,5bn) for the mobile operator. In addition to the shareholder injection, key lenders, including Nedbank and Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA), have concluded a long-term financing package of R2,2bn to Cell C, in a transaction arranged
Very few black students get to do maths-based courses at university. This is because very few black students do maths as a subject for matric. Most are being encouraged to do maths literacy instead. This subject does not prepare one for a course at university that requires a maths foundation
Urgent measures will be introduced to turn around South Africa’s information and communication sector, newly appointed communications minister Yunus Carrim said on Wednesday. Speaking after being sworn in in Pretoria, he said the performance and management of state entities, particularly the
Eskom has assured South Africans they will not experience power cuts, similar to those in 2008, because of problems at the Medupi power plant, SABC news reported on Wednesday. “For the last five years, we have kept the lights on. South Africa has seen no load shedding,” Eskom CEO Brian Dames
The ANC receiving an erroneous bill from the City of Johannesburg highlights the extent of the ongoing billing crisis in the city, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday. “It also exposes the absurdity of the mayor’s continued denial that there is a crisis,” DA Johannesburg leader Mmusi Maimane said in a
The newly appointed transport minister must put an end to the highly contested e-tolling project, the DA said on Wednesday. The party’s provincial leader John Moodey said Dipuo Peters’s immediate predecessors, Ben Martins and Sbu Ndebele, had relentlessly pushed through the tolls despite widespread
The ANC has received an erroneous bill from the City of Johannesburg stating that it owes more than R3,5m in outstanding rates, taxes, and electricity, eNCA reported on its website on Tuesday. The bill, dated 24 May 2013, was for services for the party’s Luthuli House
As part of its increased focus on business elsewhere on the continent, South Africa’s Internet Solutions (IS), a division of Dimension Data, has lit up fibre capacity it’s bought on the West Africa Cable System (Wacs). Wacs is a 5,1Tbit/s design capacity subsea cable that run from
Television licence fees will rise in September, the SABC said on Tuesday. “The annual fee for a domestic, business, dealer and lessor licence will increase by R15 from R250 to R265,” spokesman Kaizer Kganyago said in a statement. “This equals an increase of only R1,25/month