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Uber and homegrown rival Zebra Cabs are attempting to get South Africans’ attention by offering voters free or discounted rides to polling stations on 3 August, the date of the municipal elections. Zebra, which is

With just a few days to go to South Africa’s municipal elections, TechCentral hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg get into election mode and wonder just how many Pokémons they’ll be able to catch at their local

The Electoral Commission of South Africa and Accenture have launched a mobile application designed to provide voters with the electoral information ahead of, during and after the municipal elections taking place

Cell C has warned that the invitation to apply for spectrum, issued earlier this month by communications regulator Icasa, would serve only to entrench the dominance of South Africa’s two largest mobile operators, Vodacom and MTN

Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele must abandon his plan to take legal action to stop communications regulator Icasa from proceeding with a plan to auction off broadband spectrum in South Africa

Africa has surpassed half a billion unique mobile users, the GSMA, an industry body, said on Tuesday. According to the GSMA’s newly released “The Mobile Economy: Africa 2016” report, the mobile ecosystem added an estimated US$150bn

Telecommunications provider BitCo has launched microwave connectivity in the last mile using licensed spectrum at 2GHz, it said on Monday.…

A telecommunications industry body has called on the South African Revenue Service to stop taxing cellphones as “luxury items”. The Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association said on Monday that smartphones

First National Bank clients on Sunday reported being unable to use their bank cards at the point of sale or at ATMs as a major outage hit the financial services institution. Users turned to social media to share their frustration

Absa has launched ChatBanking for Facebook Messenger, which allows clients to conduct their banking in the chat application. Messenger is the second platform that Absa has brought its ChatBanking service to