Author: Staff Reporter

South Africa’s municipal elections will take place on 3 August, President Jacob Zuma announced on Wednesday. The move gives political parties a little less than four months to campaign

South African e-commerce is set to reach an important landmark in 2016. Online retail will reach 1% of overall retail this year, according to new research by World Wide Worx. The report shows that online retail continues to grow at a high rate in South Africa, having maintained

Opera Software co-founder and former CEO Jon von Tetzchner has released the first post-beta version of a brand-new Web browser called Vivaldi that he hopes will appeal to the Web’s “most demanding users”. The software, called Vivaldi, has been in public

The new accelerator programme for financial technology start-ups backed by Barclays Africa and US accelerator Techstars has announced the names of 10 companies that have been selected to take part. More than 400 applications had been received

Free-to-air television channel e.tv has asked communications regulator Icasa to amend its licence to allow it to broadcast its 6.30pm news bulletin outside of prime time. Under its current licence

The City of Cape Town has approved the installation of fibre-optic cables in the municipality’s sewerage and storm water pipes. The city said in a statement that fibre specialist Link Africa has been granted permission to proceed with the installation of fibre

Ronald Wayne. Never heard of him, right? Most people haven’t. Yet he one of the triumvirate who co-founded Apple, alongside the two Steves – Jobs and Wozniak. As Apple, today the world’s most valuable company by market capitalisation, celebrates the 40th

Cell C on Monday released details of its first commercial fibre-to-the-home offerings, and the pricing suggests the telecommunications operator intends being an aggressive player

FNB Life announced on Monday that consumers can now take up funeral plans through nearly 6 700 FNB ATMs and Slimline devices across the country. The insurance distributor and administrator’s CEO, Lee Bromfield, said in a statement that making

A merger of troubled state-owned telecommunications infrastructure company Broadband Infraco and Telkom, in which government holds a 39,8% direct stake, looks increasingly certain, a report published on Monday said. Business Day said Infraco has indicated in