The media encourages young people to become criminals when it reports on crime, SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has said in a television interview. But when asked if the same principle would apply to corruption, he paused before coming up with an answer
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When chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng put it to Vodacom’s counsel, led by Fanie Cilliers SC, that a man who has invented a product out of which the telecommunications giant generated millions must get nothing, attendees at the constitutional court murmured in disagreement
Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday that his attempts to improve the efficiency of South Africa’s state-owned entities are not an attempt to get more votes in the 2016 local government
Energy minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson on Tuesday dismissed reports that the nuclear build programme would cost R1 trillion. “I don’t know where the R1 trillion figure came from
Fibre broadband company Vumatel is ramping up its network as it aims to bring high-speed Internet to thousands more homes. On Monday, it announced that it plans to connect 100 000 homes by 2016 after it started its operations just a year ago in the Johannesburg suburb of
Broadband start-up Vumatel has announced plans to build fibre-optic infrastructure in six more Johannesburg suburbs. The company said on Monday that residents in Hurlingham, Glenadrienne, Hyde Park, Northcliff, Sharonlea and Olivedale have decided to ask Vumatel to wire up their
Eskom went into its 23rd day without load shedding on Monday, after the official opening of unit 6 of the Medupi power station. Medupi unit 6 was opened officially by President Jacob Zuma on Sunday, after being synchronised onto the national grid and a period of testing
PC sales in Africa and the Middle East fell by a massive 25,6% in the second quarter of 2015, the steepest decline ever recorded in the region for a single quarter, International Data Corp said on Monday. Overall PC shipments for the quarter fell to 3,3m
The country’s energy shortage is a serious obstacle to growth, said President Jacob Zuma on Sunday, when he officially opened unit 6, the first of six units at Medupi Power Station near Lephalale in Limpopo. This comes after Statistics South Africa announced this week that
Just one customer has complained to the National Consumer Commission (NCC) about disappearing mobile data, according to a spokesman. Rapid mobile data depletion has become a hot topic in South Africa this month, with complaints streaming into radio stations and on social