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ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe and national spokesman Zizi Kodwa have tried and failed to control communications minister Faith Muthambi, former Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi claimed on Monday. Vavi told journalists that Kodwa was

Workers at communications regulator Icasa continued their picketing action on Wednesday. The strike entered its third day Wednesday as workers demanded salary increases and bonus pay back-dated to 2014. These issues stem from

Instant messaging app WhatsApp experienced downtime on mobile networks in Zimbabwe on Wednesday as protest action started taking root. Zimbabweans woke up to no WhatsApp connectivity through their mobile phones on Wednesday, a rare occurrence in

Instant messaging application WhatsApp was unavailable in Zimbabwe on Wednesday amid fears that the government was clamping down on social media as the economically and politically troubled Southern African country faced a day of national protest

The SABC on Tuesday evening reacted to a media briefing by ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu saying it was “concerned” by some of the things Mthembu said. In a statement by SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago, the public broadcaster said that

The ANC has summoned communications minister Faith Muthambe and the SABC board to explain the recent censorship concerns at the public broadcaster. She and the board are expected to brief the ruling party on Monday

The high court in Pretoria has granted an urgent application by business rights group Afrisake to interdict the City of Tshwane from paying R950m to a service provider tasked with rolling out smart electricity meters across the city

BlackBerry will no longer manufacture the BlackBerry Classic, a beloved, updated model of the original that made the company a smartphone leader before Apple entered the scene. CEO John Chen introduced the Classic after joining the company in

Naspers named Akash Bhatia chief financial officer of its ShowMax video streaming business as Africa’s biggest company by market value expands the service to 36 new countries in a challenge to Netflix, which is also growing in the

Growth in real consumer spending will likely drop to near 0% in 2016, warned First National Bank chief economist Sizwe Nxedlana. He was commenting on the latest FNB/BER Consumer Confidence Index released on Tuesday, which