A Johannesburg man is taking legal action against the National Gambling Board (NGB) after it withheld money he won through online gambling. “Any form of unlicensed online gambling in South Africa is prohibited and is a criminal offence,” board CEO Baby Tyawa was quoted in the Saturday Star as saying. He
Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Guy Taylor get together to discuss everything but the news this week. Topics include LucasArts, up and coming social networks, Guy’s involvement in CloudAfrica, Facebook’s South African user base, HTC and Facebook
E-tolling on Gauteng roads will begin within the next two months, the roads agency Sanral said on Thursday. “What we are now waiting for is the completion of the parliamentary process, half of which is already done,” Sanral spokesman Vusi Mona said in a statement. “As soon as the national
Government delays in improving broadband Internet access are having a negative impact on the country’s economy, according to rankings by the World Economic Forum (WEF) published in a report on Thursday. In 2013, South Africa occupied 70th
Cell C has again chopped mobile data prices, this time on a three-month promotional basis, cutting the cost of 500MB of monthly data to R39/month for contract customers. The move, the operator says, is meant to send a “clear message” to its customers and its competitors. “Cell C has always provided customers
First National Bank launched a cellphone-based instant money transfer service between South Africa and Zimbabwe on Tuesday. “We have done extensive research into the cross-border remittance market and devised a service that is readily accessible to the people who need it most,” said Yolande van Wyk, head of digital
Troubled IT company Gijima’s share price tumbled to as low as 7c on 2 April following an unexpected R123m loss as well as a proposed rights offer for a R150m cash injection. The loss is the most recent in a string of challenges faced by the company, which appeared to begin in 2010 with the cancellation of a R2,1bn contract with the home affairs department
Investec has become the latest South African financial services institition to launch a transactional banking application. The app, which is available for Apple’s iPad tablet only, offers mobile banking and trading tools to Investec customers. The app is available in the South African version
Brett Haggard, Adam Oxford and Benedict Kelly get together this week for an episode that discusses everything from the Internet’s favourite April Fool’s Day pranks to new leadership at Telkom and the breaking of some piracy records. Topics include the top April Fool’s Day jokes
It looks likely that Internet users will have to tighten their belts from next year. Finance minister Pravin Gordhan has raised the idea of introducing a tax on broadband use from 2014.
The minister has suggested that a rate of 50c/MB should apply, with a built-in escalation in the rate in subsequent tax years
