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Google Maps has already become an indispensable tool for commuters looking for the fastest way to and from work thanks to its live traffic information. Now Google is introducing a new feature to Maps that will proactively alert you to problems ahead. Google South Africa

The Communication Workers Union on Thursday said it wanted business owners to take over Gupta-owned news channel, ANN7. “Let it be a South African-owned company. So we will be engaging with various business people to ensure that we save jobs at ANN7,” union

The process of registering a company in South Africa is now a simpler, seamless process, said trade & industry minister Rob Davies. Davies was speaking at the launch of the partnership between the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission and Nedbank, which sees

Acquisitive JSE-listed IT services group EOH has announced it is buying 100% of Aptronics, a company that provides networking, virtualisation, and server and storage infrastructure services to businesses for R194m. The purchase price is payable over two

The department of correctional services wanted to overpay a company by more than R300m for providing IT services that should have cost the taxpayer R50m. The government’s chief procurement officer, Kenneth Brown, revealed in parliament on

Giraffe, the South African start-up using technology to help tackle unemployment in South Africa through an automated recruitment service, has announced it has raised a seed round of funding led by Silicon Valley venture firm Omidyar Network. The parties have not

The Gauteng education department has increased the capacity of its website after it crashed on Monday when online school registrations opened for next year. The site had 600 accesses

Parliamentary officials have demanded that the Post Office chairman pay back money lost through the resignations of top officials. Simosezwe Lushaba faced angry standing committee on public accounts members who questioned the