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The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation has introduced its first phase of switching off analogue viewing and moving towards digital terrestrial viewing in central Namibia, it announced on Sunday

Five men have been arrested for allegedly robbing a cellphone store in Cape Town on Saturday, Western Cape police said. “Flying Squad members patrolling in the City of Cape Town made a quick

China’s Huawei, which lost ground in South Africa relative to some of its smartphone rivals over the Christmas sales season – pushing it into fourth place in terms of shipments – has vowed to

A new, South African-developed smartphone application tells you when to fill up your car and how much it’s going to cost you, with the idea that it will save consumers money. The app, called FillApp – and developed by a company

National police commissioner Riah Phiyega launched South Africa’s first e-police station in Kabokweni, Mpumalanga on Friday, during National Police Day celebrations. The computerised police station would be able to save dockets and other important

Power supply will remain extremely constrained over the weekend but no blackouts are expected, Eskom said on Friday. “The forecast for the weekend and the coming week indicates that the system will remain extremely constrained,” it said in a statement. “The electricity

Microsoft South Africa is confident that a changing approach by its parent company will mean the faster introduction of the company’s online services in South Africa. That’s the word from the MD of the South African

Times Media Group’s Vidi online video-on-demand platform is expanding its offering with a range of local television dramas, movies and children’s programming. Vidi has licensed a range

The department of communications has spent “disproportionately” more than R10m on advertising in The New Age newspaper in the last financial year, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. According