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Three men walk down a quiet Cape Town neighbourhood road carrying a stolen flat-screen television, seemingly unaware their movements are being scrutinised. A resident peeping out of the window logs a call to the Western Cape crime channel on

The City of Cape Town has taken the first steps to making Wi-Fi Internet access readily available to passengers on MyCiTi buses, it said in a statement on Thursday. “The city has issued a tender for a service provider to install

MTN’s black economic empowerment share scheme, MTN Zakhele, says its imminent listing on the JSE’s BEE board will provide shareholders with regulatory certainty for trading their shares. This is after the Financial Services Board

Eskom has announced that it will implement stage one load shedding from 5pm on Thursday, after nine days of no load shedding. The company said on Twitter that it would likely end at 10pm

Increased investment in software licences, specialised computer services, systems advisers and system development will lead to a robust improvement in IT spending by the South African government in the next four years, says Frost & Sullivan

BlackBerry has rejected political moves to ban strong encryption, saying that it’s a short-sighted policy that would not serve companies or governments. British Prime Minster David Cameron recently indicated that his government was intent on banning

The department of energy announced in a statement on Thursday that it has signed two memoranda of understanding with Russian state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom at the 7th summit of the Brics (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa)

South African CEOs of JSE-listed companies earned an average of R4,1m in 2014, according to a report released on Thursday. According to PwC’s executive directors – practices and remuneration trends report, South Africa had 1 180 executives within

The labour court on Wednesday ordered Telkom to halt its section 189 process which deals with planned retrenchments at the company. Telkom announced last month that it plans to cut over