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The fight over who controls home broadband in South Africa is getting a lot more serious. South African fibre-to-the-home pioneer Vumatel announced on Tuesday that it has reached

Consumers who receive their power from municipalities will see electricity prices jump by about 7,6% on 1 July after energy regulator Nersa approved the increase for municipalities this week

Vodacom has taken issue with claims by Cell C in a recent advertising billboard that it offers the widest network coverage of any operator in South Africa. The company has taken its

Power utility Eskom has begun to ramp down planned maintenance to ramp up energy availability for the winter season. “Our winter plan formally kicked off on 1 April 2016 and runs

A recovery in commodity currencies and stability in the oil price boosted the rand to its highest level in four months on Tuesday. By 9am on Tuesday, the rand was trading at R14,38/US$

A 17-year-old from Somerset College in the Western Cape has achieved what is being regarded as the highest maths mark in the world. Dario Trinchero scored 100% for maths in the

Reports emerged on Monday that five telecommunications operators, including South Africa’s MTN and Telkom, have designs on a new, superfast submarine cable system connecting Africa

Demonstrating just how much of an international business it has become, JSE-listed Naspers has announced that it will in future report all of its earnings in US dollars instead of rand

Just when it appeared a sale of state-owned fibre infrastructure provider Broadband Infraco to Telkom was a fait accompli, Vodacom may now intervene and make an offer to buy the financially

MTN South Africa has announced it will “zero-rate”, or provide free data, for access to the popular South African schools management software d6 Communicator to its 32m customers. The software, which is available for PCs and mobile