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Former public protector Thuli Madonsela will not be able to give evidence before parliament’s ad hoc committee looking into the SABC board, as she will be travelling during the hearing dates. The committee met for the first time

The department of telecommunications & postal services has met with the Universal Postal Union to discuss ways to modernise the postal network to benefit from e-commerce. The meeting between department director-general Robert

President Jacob Zuma survived the most serious challenge to his leadership yet, after a contingent of top officials failed to force him from office during a meeting of the ruling party’s national executive committee. The committee, which

Academic bookstore Van Schaik has become the latest company to announce plans to launch a mobile virtual network operator in South Africa. The virtual operator, which piggybacks on

The ZA Central Registry, which looks after the .za Internet domain, has been approved as an official registrar of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers. The development means ZACR can now

Naspers plans to expand in education software as Africa’s biggest company by market value searches for a repeat of the profitable bet it made on China’s Tencent. The owner of Africa’s biggest pay-television

Nedbank has launched an interactive teller and banker ATM at its flagship new-generation branch in Sandton in Johannesburg. According to the financial services group, it is the only bank in Africa and the second

Naspers’s video entertainment assets, which include DStv operator MultiChoice, have come under severe margin pressure as investment in ShowMax and weak currencies in many of its markets put downward pressure on its trading