Major banks will soon be taking applications for new smart card IDs, home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday. “There are several new innovations that are going to be introduced by the department to assist South Africans for smart ID cards and passports
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It will take 20 to 30 months before power utility Eskom has caught up with maintenance and is back on the right track, energy department director-general Wolsey Barnard said on Tuesday. “It’s going to take time, it’s going to take in the vicinity
Gauteng moving towards renewable energy to take pressure off the struggling national energy grid, the province’s infrastructure development MEC Nandi Mayathula-Khoza said on Tuesday. “Solar energy and energy for landfill gas are the most
An urgent application to prohibit the use of mobile network blocking devices in parliament got underway in the high court in Cape Town on Tuesday afternoon. Primedia Broadcasting, Media24, the South African National Editors Forum, the Right to Know campaign
Cabinet ministers on Sunday termed the loss of cellphone signal in the national assembly during the opening of parliament a “technical glitch”, and said the violence that marred the event would not
South African media houses will urgently seek a court order preventing security agencies from blocking communication signals to interfere with reporting as happened in parliament this week, the South
The secretary of parliament was asked on Friday to investigate the jamming of cellphones and the faulty microphone during the eighth state-of-the-nation address by President Jacob Zuma, parliament said. “What occurred today should never again be allowed
The ANC on Friday condemned the jamming of the cellphone signal in parliament during President Jacob Zuma’s state-of-the-nation address on Thursday evening. “The ANC condemns the jamming of the signal last night in parliament. The ANC
The using of jamming devices by any entity other than the national security cluster departments is “not authorised and/or permitted”, communications regulator Icasa said on Friday morning in
South Africa’s energy woes are a “challenge” but not a crisis and government knows how to address them, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday. “I think we have a challenge, not a crisis,” Zuma told