Author: Staff Reporter

South African-born customer communication and document security specialist Striata has been acquired by Canadian-founded communications and engagement technology provider Doxim.

A week after it announced it had attached a bank account belonging to the Matjhabeng municipality, which includes the Free State town of Welkom, Eskom has attached 139 farms belonging to the council.

Cell C shareholder Net1 UEPS Technologies has appointed a new director to the board of the mobile operator. David Shimkins will replace Paul Edwards with immediate effect.

A conveyor belt at the giant Medupi coal-fired power station snapped on Wednesday night, prompted state-owned power utility Eskom to warn on Thursday morning of a high risk of load shedding.

The ZA Domain Name Authority has announced it will hike the wholesale fees for .co.za, .org.za, .web.za and .net.za domains next year.

Eskom has attached a bank account belonging to the Matjhabeng municipality in the Free State, which includes the town of Welkom, in response to R3.4-billion in outstanding debt for the provision of bulk electricity.

Eskom has read the riot act to “apathetic” managers at its power stations, calling for an “urgent culture change” in the organisation, as the state-owned monopoly plunges the country into severe load shedding.

JSE-listed construction company Stefanutti Stocks was hit by a cyberattack on the morning of 31 August, it said in a statement to shareholders.

Telkom has launched what is, for most users, effectively an uncapped mobile broadband product, offering a terabyte per month of data, for R999.

Volkswagen-owned car maker Audi will launch its Audi Connect technology in South Africa this year with the introduction of the new A4 sedan next month.