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
One of the Medupi’s six 800MW units will not meet its deadline to deliver power to the grid by the end of the year, Eskom said on Monday. “Eskom has confirmed that the December 2013 target date is unlikely to be met. A more realistic target for the first synchronisation of unit six to the grid is the second half of 2014,” the
An important security feature on the new Mandela banknotes, which were rolled out in November last year, has been found to be defective, it was reported on Sunday. The security thread, the most visible feature on the notes, which was meant to be embedded in the note, was
The first batch of smart ID cards will be issued to a list of prominent South Africans this month, home affairs minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday. She announced that on Mandela Day, 18 July, the smart cards would be issued to individuals including president Jacob Zuma, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, archbishop
Insufficient competition between mobile broadband operators is keeping prices higher than they should be and slowing adoption of the Internet by South African consumers, the Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) said on Wednesday. The association, which represents
Adam Oxford fills in for Brett Haggard this week, leading Ben Kelly and Steven Ambrose in a discussion that’s both laid back and paranoid at the same time. The panel discusses general news and advice in the physical and data security space, South Africa’s new ID card,s, Sony’s new announcements
Business confidence remained fragile and hit a new low last month, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) said on Wednesday. The Sacci Business Confidence Index sank from 90,4 in May 2013 to 90,2 last month. In June 2012, the index was at 94,9. The average for the
