The country’s proposed national minimum wage amounts to R20/hour and brings South Africa a step closer to tackling poverty, inequality and unemployment, deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said to reporters in Johannesburg on Sunday. “It is by no
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President Jacob Zuma will face a tough grilling during his last question-and-answer session for the year in the national assembly. Zuma will answer questions in parliament on Wednesday, his first appearance since he blasted the
The national integrated ICT policy white paper, approved last month by cabinet, is a threat to the telecommunications industry and must be revisited urgently because it will chase away those investing
Facebook is taking steps to address its role in spreading fake news, such as enlisting the help of third-party fact checkers and posting warnings on dubious stories. CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday responded to
Amazon.com is preparing to take its video streaming service worldwide in a challenge to Netflix, the world’s largest paid online TV network. Amazon, which currently offers the service in only a handful
Naspers expects its core headline earnings to rise by as much as 28% in the six months to end-September 2016 compared to the same period a year ago. The JSE-listed global technology and media giant said
Econet Wireless unit Liquid Telecom has secured US$300m (about R4,3bn) to help fund expansion in Africa and its R6,5bn acquisition of Neotel. Standard Bank is arranging the syndicated loan to help fund the Neotel
Vodacom has reached an agreement to roam on Wireless Business Solutions’ LTE-Advanced network, according to a report. Vodacom will benefit from WBS’s LTE-A broadband network through a roaming deal
Industrial action could impact telecommunications company Telkom once again, the Communications Workers Union has threatened. In September, the CWU suspended strike against the telecoms
ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu has filed a defamation suit against SABC executive Hlaudi Motsoeneng, demanding R1m for making “malicious and defamatory” remarks about him