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Sabido Investments, which owns broadcasting assets including e.tv and eNews Channel Africa (eNCA), has announced it may have to close two loss-making divisions and has begun consultations with affected staff. The first business that may be closed down

SABC nonexecutive director Hope Zinde insisted on Friday that she is still a member of the public broadcaster’s board. “I want to assure you that I am still very much a member of the board of the SABC,” she said in a statement. The SABC board passed

Cell C was experiencing severe network issues on Friday morning, with customers of the mobile operator’s network not contactable.
The outage appears to have started just before 8.30am. Frustrated users have taken to Twitter to voice their dissatisfaction, complaining

South African consumers aren’t going to have to wait long for the new Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, unveiled at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The new phones will go on sale in South Africa on 10 April, according to a posting on Vodacom’s

Parliament’s public enterprises portfolio committee is concerned at the suspension of four top Eskom executives, it said on Friday. “We register our concern regarding the stability and governance of the power utility, considering the current energy challenges facing the

Government has proposed establishing a range of cybersecurity structures to deal with the growing threat of cybercrime, cyberterrorism and other online threats. In the proposed Cybercrimes and Related Matters Bill, which is being circulated for comment

Four senior Eskom executives, including CEO Tshediso Matona, have been asked to step aside as the power utility embarks on a fact-finding inquiry, board chairman Zola Tsotsi said on Thursday. “To

Eskom on Thursday announced that it has asked its CEO Tshediso Matona and two other executives to “step aside” while an inquiry into the parastatal is conducted. Matona has been in the top job at Eskom for only six months. Before joining Eskom, he

The SABC board passed a vote of no confidence in nonexecutive director Hope Zinde and removed her from the post on Thursday. “Today’s meeting managed to only deal with issues relating to one

Pierre Spies has been named as deputy CEO at technology group Pinnacle Holdings and is set to take the reins when the current CEO, Arnold Fourie, steps down. After a torrid year for the group, which included an investigation