Author: Staff Reporter

Cisco Systems GM for sub-Saharan Africa Clayton Naidoo will join Liquid Telecom as group chief business officer, where he will be responsible for driving growth, innovation and strategy in the enterprise market.

Government Internet agency the ZA Domain Name Authority has appointed Molehe Wesi as its new CEO, replacing Peter Madavhu, who has acted in the role for the past 18 months.

Seacom chief strategy officer Suveer Ramdhani, who has played an integral role in the telecommunications company since its launch in 2009, has resigned.

Credit bureau Experian said on Thursday that no consumer credit information or financial information was obtained by a suspected fraudster and that the incident has been “contained”.

Thousands of investors in Vodacom Group’s black economic empowerment scheme, YeboYethu, have failed to claim more than R73-million in dividends owing to them.

The Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association has launched a “Do Not Contact” database that consumers can use to prevent them from receiving unwanted SMS spam.

Eskom will implement stage-2 rotational load shedding from 4pm on Tuesday, with the power cuts set to continue all day on Wednesday, the state-owned electricity utility said.

Eskom will continue implementing rotational blackouts on Friday as it struggles with electricity generation problems at several of its plants.

Eskom implemented rotational blackouts on Thursday after it failed to return power generation units to the grid and after additional breakdowns overnight.

Eskom on Wednesday warned that rotational blackouts could return at any moment as its struggled to meet demand for electricity with 11GW in unplanned breakdowns in its generation fleet.