Tian Olivier has been appointed SABC’s new acting CEO and James Aguma has taken up the reins of acting chief financial officer, the national broadcaster said on Friday. “Mr Olivier and Mr Aguma’s appointments are based on their extensive knowledge and a proven track record as senior managers currently at the SABC,” spokesman
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MultiChoice “cannot speak for the poor” and “has no mandate from them”. It also can’t speak for consumers, from whom it makes “super profits”. That’s the latest broadside directed against MultiChoice by the ministry of communications as the war of words between the Naspers-owned pay-television operator and communications minister
Project Isizwe, the nonprofit founded by former Mxit CEO Alan Knott-Craig, has announced plans to expand its free Wi-Fi coverage to open public spaces in key hubs in the Western Cape. The news comes after the completion is a first phase of a free Wi-Fi roll-out in selected areas around Pretoria
MultiChoice has upped the ante further with communications minister Yunus Carrim over government’s policy on the use of encryption in digital terrestrial television. In a statement, it has accused the minister of not telling the truth when he claimed that MultiChoice and its partners were misrepresenting the situation. Tensions between
The Sunday Independent is standing by its article about a multimillion-rand tender which has led to a threat of a R1bn defamation lawsuit. “I stand by the story and by my reporter, who was thorough and meticulous in researching and sourcing the story, and was equally careful in his writing
Vodacom intends expanding the size of its network in Gauteng dramatically in the next financial year, with plans to add 555 4G/LTE towers in the province by the end of March 2015. The expansion, which also includes the deployment of new 2G and 3G sites, forms part of
Sanral collected R250m from electronic tolling in Gauteng in the first three months of implementation, it said on Wednesday. “An amount of R250,8m has been received as at 28 February 2014,” the roads agency’s chief financial officer, Inge Mulder, said. “Sanral wishes to thank
South Africa’s new “e-commerce tax”, to be introduced on 1 April, will mean education institutions will struggle to purchase academic journals. It is already difficult for South Africans to access international academic journals. The most prestigious, which contain the world’s leading research, charge – usually in dollars, pounds or euros – for article
The personal computer business is in a poor state worldwide, and the Africa and Middle East region has not been shielded from the slump. The latest data from research firm International Data Corp (IDC) shows the PC shipments in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey declined by 14,3% year on year during the fourth quarter of 2014, to 4,5m
MTN has defended its two-page newspaper advertisement at the weekend in which it said sarcastically that it was “guilty” – of doing many things right by consumers and the country. It says the ad campaign was in response to a “virulent attack” by Cell C on its brand and reputation