Media24 CEO Esmare Weideman has apologised for Naspers’s role in apartheid. “We acknowledge complicity in a morally indefensible political regime and the hurtful way in which this played out in our newsrooms
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Despite union objections, Telkom has announced it is extending voluntary severance and early retirement packages to all employees, including those that belong to trade unions. The decision to offer packages to all staff, included unionised
If Vodacom is allowed access to Neotel’s radio frequency spectrum assets, it will give the mobile operator an “unfair advantage” over MTN and other players in the telecommunications industry
Advtech has rejected rival Curro’s newest “offer”, telling its rival that its latest correspondence has not changed materially from a previous approach and therefore doesn’t warrant further consideration
South Africa’s telecommunications industry will grow at a compound annual rate of just 1,4% over the next five years, meaning that in real terms – adjusted for inflation – the sector is shrinking. But
The South African Revenue Service has served notice to organisations that flout the law with a message that the “game is over”. Sars on Wednesday debuted a new container scanner at the Cape Town port, f
More than 14 000 people have signed an online petition launched on Thursday against the Film and Publication Board’s (FPB’s) draft online regulations. “A new set of regulations threatens
The South African Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee hiked the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6%/annum, effective from 24 July 2015, its governor Lesetja Kganyago announced on Thursday. Banks will raise their prime lending and variable mortgage
Altron has decided to sell its poorly performing video-on-demand platform, the Altech Node, and is in the advanced stages of discussions with an unnamed third party to dispose of the product. Altron subsidiary Altech launched the Node
Building fibre broadband infrastructure into homes and businesses is one of MTN South Africa’s “biggest priorities”, its newly appointed CEO, Mteto Nyati, has said. In an interview with TechCentral