Author: Staff Reporter

Former Gijima CEO Jonas Bogoshi and former T-Systems vice president Michael Buttner have joined Telkom’s ICT services business BCX as chief revenue officer and chief operating officer respectively. BCX said on

Fibre-to-the-home broadband provider Octotel said on Thursday that it is going to expand its infrastructure roll-out to reach more than 100 000 homes passed within a year. The company, which offers open-access fibre, has so

Cell C will zero-rate data for all its customers this Easter long weekend wanting to try its new Black video-on-demand entertainment offering. The mobile operator, South Africa’s third largest, is making a big push

You can now tip your Uber driver directly from the app in South Africa. The Internet ride-hailing company announced on Tuesday that it has introduced the tipping feature with immediate effect. At the end of each trip, Uber

SqwidNet, the Internet of things (IoT) network operator launched as a partnership between Dark Fibre Africa and France-headquartered IoT specialist Sigfox, now covers 83% of South Africa’s population, it said on

The SABC board said on Monday that “decisive and appropriate action” will be taken if allegations of fraud and corruption related to a R185m security tender awarded in July 2017 are proven to be true. The Star newspaper

Late on Friday, Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk and chief financial officer Basil Sgourdos spoke to analysts about the group’s decision to sell 2% of its stake in Chinese Internet giant Tencent. Van Dijk explained the rationale

Sentech has appointed a long-serving company engineer as its new chief operating officer. The company said on Friday that it has named Tebogo Leshope to take the operational reins at the state-owned

New research from GfK shows South African consumers continue to clamour for smartphones, with entry-level model driving demand, but PC sales continue to flounder.
Smartphone unit sales in South Africa climbed by

Cape Town-based machine-learning specialist DataProphet has concluded a multimillion-dollar funding round from venture capital provider Knife Capital.
Knife Capital invests via a consortium of funding