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
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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
Eskom said full-year profit surged as revenue increased by 11% and the South African power utility was able to avert supply cuts, raising sales to neighboring countries that have shortages. Profit was R4,6bn in the year to 31 March from R200m
Issues of racism and incitement of hatred prompted South Africa to vote against a United Nations resolution on the protection of human rights on the Internet. On Friday, the UN held a vote on a resolution dubbed “the promotion, protection and enjoyment
Vodacom, through parent Vodafone, has launched two new premium own-branded smartphones in an effort to push up the number of high-end 4G/LTE users on its network. The telecommunications operator’s own-branded devices have proved highly
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe claims his party has also been a victim of censorship at the SABC. “We are saying the SABC sometimes censors us as the ANC and nobody speaks. It doesn’t report on our activities and yet nobody comments. Censorship is a bad thing
The Right2Know Campaign, along with several other groups, will picket outside the offices of the SABC in Auckland Park on Wednesday and Thursday. On Monday a number of civil society groups met to discuss upcoming protest plans against
South Africa has joined China and Russia in voting against a United Nations resolution on the “promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet”. On Friday, the UN held a vote on the resolution, which seeks