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Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications distanced itself on Sunday from comments made by committee member Gavin Davis regarding SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala. “The committee reiterates that it will refuse to be drawn into

The SABC on Sunday confirmed reports that its group head of technology, Sipho Masinga, has been suspended, but declined to detail the reasons behind this. “The media will not be used as a way of doing a disciplinary process

A wage agreement has been reached with two of three recognised unions at the South African Post Office, it said on Friday. The agreement would be effective from 1 December, said Simo Lushaba, head of the intervention team appointed by telecommunications and postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele

Vodacom has changed the minimum billing increment or “unitisation” for data, but claims the change will not negatively affect its customers. The mobile operator on Friday confirmed the move, saying it increased the minimum session volume from 1KB to 10KB on in-bundle data depletion and 5KB

Eskom started with scheduled blackouts on Friday afternoon, the power utility said. “Load shedding will continue until 8pm tonight,” it said in a short power update. “We appeal to customers to immediately switch off geysers, pool pumps, air conditioning and

Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications has written a memorandum to the speaker of the national assembly asking for the immediate suspension of SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala. “This follows a second unanimous agreement among committee members that Tshabalala be suspended

Afrihost subscribers who buy broadband ADSL bandwidth from the company have complained vociferously in recent weeks about problems achieving advertised speeds using the Internet service provider’s backbone, with many saying the experience has fallen far short of expectations. The company’s CEO, Gian Visser

South Africa should introduce electronic voting now rather than later, Prof Mzamo Alexander Gumbi said on Thursday. “We should start right now,” Gumbi told a panel interviewing candidates for the position of commissioner of IEC. “Namibia has introduced electronic voting, why can’t South Africa do

It’s unlikely that online gambling in South Africa will take off for the foreseeable future as the department of trade and industry, which is responsible for the sector, is stalling over the licensing of Internet-based operators, according

A Karoo farmer may have stumbled on a crashed test balloon being used by Internet company Google, Beeld reported on Thursday. Urbanus Botha, who doesn’t spend much time in front of computers, at first thought it might be a