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Cabinet has approved the long-delayed national integrated ICT policy white paper, minister in the presidency Jeff Radebe said on Thursday. TechCentral reported on Tuesday that cabinet was set to discuss the white paper

The SABC’s 2016 accounts are splashed in red ink. The public broadcaster revealed on Thursday that it reported a R411m net loss for the financial year. The loss is a worsening of the broadcaster’s performance

The supreme court of appeal has ruled that the signal jamming during last year’s state of the nation address was unconstitutional and unlawful. A signal jammer was activated by the department of state

Cabinet on Thursday announced the appointment of the current CEO of the company operating Gauteng’s controversial e-toll system to succeed Sanral CEO Nazir Alli, who retires at the end of September. Sanral said in a statement

Food delivery app UberEats was launched on Wednesday in South Africa and the company behind the ride-sharing app is confident the service will disrupt the food industry, and possibly other sectors as well. Uber GM for sub-Saharan Africa Alon Lits

The Cape Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday said it shared concerns about the SABC’s management issues, but that none of its members had approached it for advice on withdrawing advertising from the public broadcaster. Around

The high court in Pretoria will hand down judgment at 10am on Friday in the application brought by telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele against Icasa over the communications regulator’s plan to auction off

MTN Group is considering selling about $500m in shares of its Ghana business, according to people familiar with the matter. The company is approaching high-net-worth individuals in the country about

Digital distributed ledger technology, dubbed the “blockchain”, is being over-hyped, at least in the short-term, says Gartner’s senior vice-president for technology, Peter Sondergaard. Blockchain acts as a digital distributed ledger to

Former SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng will remain an employee at the public broadcaster, SABC board chairman Mbulaheni Maguvhe said on Tuesday. “Mr Motsoeneng is still an employee. He would be going back to the