SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala on Thursday obtained an interim interdict in the Western Cape high court halting an inquiry into whether she lied about her academic qualifications. The announcement was made during a meeting of parliament’s portfolio committee on communications, which
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Vodacom has completed a R1bn investment to increase the speed, capacity and range of its network in the Western Cape. The upgrade also includes the roll-out of 4G/LTE infrastructure across Cape Town. The operator says the network upgrade, which commenced in October 2012, was in
SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala won’t be producing her qualifications just yet. Instead, she’s headed to the courts to stop a parliamentary process intent on suspending her, after months of evasions and requests for postponements. Tshabalala’s lawyers have lodged an interdict to stop a parliamentary inquiry
Hosken Consolidated Investments, in a surprise move late on Wednesday, announced that it had suspended its executive chairman Marcel Golding pending a disciplinary hearing into “gross misconduct”. Golding was not immediately available for
In his medium term budget policy statement, finance minister Nhlanhla Nene has allocated R620m in funding for broadcasting digital migration to the department of telecommunications and postal services and not to the department of communications
The ongoing restructuring in the information and communications technology industry puts employees under immense pressure, trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday. “There have been far more retrenchments this year than in
The spate of armed robberies on technology and telecommunications retail outlets in recent weeks has led to a new coalition aimed at fighting the scourge. The South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC), the Consumer Goods Council, Business Against Crime, the South African Police
The SABC has reported irregular expenditure of a whopping R3,3bn in the financial year that ended in March 2014, up…
The City of Cape Town has launched a new transport application for smartphones called Transport for Cape Town (TCT) that merges the timetables, stops and stations of scheduled transport services, allowing residents and visitors to plan their journeys through bus, rail and private transport. The app was developed
Communications minister Faith Muthambi told ANC MPs not to interfere in her department’s affairs after they told her to show leadership, it was reported on Wednesday. They also urged her to halt the process to appoint the new CEO of the SABC until the outcome of a parliamentary inquiry over