Politically connected businessman and executive chairman of JSE-listed technology services company Gijima Robert Gumede has threatened to sue the Sunday Independent for R1bn, according to a report in sister newspaper the Saturday Star at the weekend. According to the Saturday Star, the threatened claim
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Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a blog post on Thursday that he had held a telephone conversation this week with US president Barack Obama in which the Facebook CEO expressed his “frustration over the damage” the US government is “creating for all our future”. Zuckerberg, 29, has become increasingly vocal about the fallout
Shares in JSE-listed technology and media group Naspers took a battering on Friday as investors turned sour on Tencent, the fast-growing Chinese communications and e-commerce company that owns chat programs WeChat and QQ. Reuters reported that Naspers’s shares were off by their biggest one-day
An application to declare the e-tolling legislation unconstitutional and invalid was dismissed by the Western Cape high court on Thursday. “The application is dismissed. The parties shall bear their own costs,” Judge Owen Rogers said. He said the Democratic Alliance, which
The ANC has welcomed a judgment dismissing an application challenging the constitutionality of e-tolling legislation. “The ANC welcomes today’s ruling by the Western Cape high court to reject the Democratic Alliance’s latest challenge of the Sanral Act and National
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa is launching an inquiry into the state of competition in the information and technology sector, it said on Thursday. “The authority has powers under the Icasa Act to conduct an inquiry into a range of different issues
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) wants communications regulator Icasa to focus on more than just voice call termination rates, and believes there needs to be a greater emphasis on dealing with the cost of mobile data services in South Africa. “Voice remains a significant issue for the average consumer. At the
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has announced plans to launch what it’s calling a “high-level inquiry into the state of competition in the information and communications technology sector”. The authority, which regulates the telecommunications, broadcasting and postal services sectors
Gijima has filled the long-vacant chief financial officer post at the listed IT services company. Ernst Röth will replace Carlos Ferreira, who resigned last July. Liesl Tweedie had been standing in in the position in an acting capacity. Röth has also been named to the board of the financially troubled company. For
Microsoft has stepped up its fight against software piracy in South Africa, working with the Hawks to execute raids in recent weeks on the premises of various resellers suspected of selling counterfeit and unlicensed products. In the most recent enforcement actions, about 100 counterfeit disks containing Microsoft