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SABC acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng was ordained as a priest at the weekend, it was reported on Monday. “Personally, I think it’s important that people can see that I have done well. If you look at my history I am a very caring person,” Motsoeneng was quoted by The New Age as saying after being awarded a

MTN South Africa has warned its customers of a new Sim swap scam that takes advantage of warning notices usually issued by the mobile operator via SMS. “This is another attempt by malicious users to obtain the personal banking details of MTN customers,” it says. The syndicate behind the scam sends an e-mail similar to

French telecommunications giant Orange, which has said previously that it is interested in playing more aggressively in South Africa’s telecoms industry, has announced plans to launch a Wi-Fi network in the country through its Orange Horizons subsidiary. In a statement, the company says it will launch what it’s

A strong performance by Altron’s newly created TMT division, which includes subsidiaries Bytes and Altech, is expected to underpin a sharp rise in the group’s earnings in the year to 28 February 2014. Altron informed shareholders on Thursday that it expects its headline earnings per share for the full year to be between

Absa’s transactional banking application for smartphones has been downloaded more than 300 000 times, the bank’s head of digital channels and payments, Adrian Vermooten, said on Thursday. Speaking at a press conference in Johannesburg, Vermooten said the app, which is available

An IT staff member marked the Special Investigating Unit’s report on Nkandla “completed” because he had misinterpreted an e-mail, the unit said on Thursday. “The SIU is deeply embarrassed by the earlier error on the website,” spokesman Boy Ndala said in a statement. “The head of the unit only became aware of the error and

There are simple steps the public can take to prevent ATM fraud, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre said on Wednesday. “There is a perception that most bank-related [crime] matters are perpetrated by internal staff in banks,” Sabric CEO Kalyani Pillay told

Gauteng motorists have run up more than half a billion rand in overdue fees since the province’s e-tolling system started on 3 December last year, according to transport minister Dipuo Peters. Less than 10% of this has been paid. “I am informed that … as at 1 March

Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions has invested in the region of R60m in advanced new fibre-optic networking infrastructure from Infinera that has increased its capacity nationwide seven-fold, with the ability to grow that by 150-fold without “forklifting” hardware