Africa received a US$10bn boost of help to build out its renewable energy sources, with Germany leading the advanced economies in its contribution. Germany’s environmental minister, Barbara Hendricks, made the announcement on Monday on the
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Telkom has announced a plan to zero-rate ShowMax data on certain of its tariff plans, allowing consumers to stream video content without it contributing to their data cap. The offer applies to new and existing Telkom “Summer Unlimited” users
Google has become the latest streaming music provider to launch services in South Africa. Google Play Music is available to South African consumers with immediate effect for a subscription
Sunil Joshi has stepped down as CEO of Neotel, five months after being suspended pending a board-led investigation into alleged corruption in a deal involving Transnet. His resignation comes less than two weeks after Neotel’s chief financial officer, who
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s lawyer, Zola Majavu, told journalists that the corporation knew his client did not have a matric certificate when he was first hired in 1995. Majavu, speaking at Motsoeneng’s disciplinary hearing
Twitter has released its annual review of the top trends on Twitter for the year, in South Africa and around the world. The 2015 “year on Twitter” round-up reveals the top trends in South Africa. In the news category, two of the top
Information and communications technology spending in South Africa is forecast to grow by 2,6% year-on-year to R26,6bn in 2016. This is according to International Data Corp, which says that mobile devices will largely be responsible for growth in this sector
Organisations challenging the new Broadcasting Amendment Bill, promised to go as far as the constitutional court if need be. The bill, proposed by communications minister Faith Muthambi
he Broadcasting Amendment Bill, which will essentially turn the SABC into a state-controlled broadcaster, is bad news for South African democracy. So believes Democratic Alliance MP Phumzile
Nigerian regulators’ decision to reduce MTN’s multibillion-dollar fine is a “positive” move and if the penalty was “arbitrary”, then the company would have turned to the courts. This is according to a board member for the South Africa-Nigeria