The South African Social Security Agency received a roasting by parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Wednesday over R1,1bn in irregular expenditure in 2015/2016. Hawks head Berning Ntlemeza was in attendance
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The ANC is calling on parliament to accelerate the implementation of the resolution for the establishment of a media appeals tribunal following the suspension of The Citizen editor Steve Motale, it said in a statement. “It is starkly clear that the people
An attempt by two musicians’ rights groups, and Jimmy Manyi’s Decolonisation Foundation, to throw legal weight behind Hlaudi Motsoeneng failed in the Western Cape high court on Wednesday. The SA Musicians Association and the Independent Music
Government cannot sit by and watch banks close people’s accounts “willy nilly”, said President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday in parliament. He was responding to questions from MPs when he was asked to elaborate on an inter-ministerial commission which looked
MultiChoice has upgraded its DStv Now streaming service, ditching Adobe Flash in favour of HTML5, while also updating its SuperSport iOS and Android app to allow for a picture-in-picture mode
Cairo has this year surpassed South Africa’s business hub, Johannesburg, as being Internet ride-sharing service Uber’s biggest and busiest African city. This is according to Uber’s head of operations for Europe, Middle
South African policy makers will probably leave interest rates steady on Thursday without calling an end to the rate-hike cycle as uncertainty from Donald Trump’s election as US president to local political turmoil keeps the rand volatile. Inflation that’s slowed from a peak of 7% in
The State IT Agency has finally explained why it pulled the plug on a government tender, worth up to R1,5bn, to roll out broadband to underserviced parts of the country: none of the bidders qualified. The tender was the first phase of a network
MTN has raised R1,1bn through the public offer for its new black economic empowerment scheme, Zakhele Futhi, well short of the target of R2,5bn, but sufficient to allow the transaction to proceed. The telecommunications group
The rand extended gains, strengthening the most among global currencies after the South African government said it would delay a plan to build new nuclear power plants, allaying concern that the cost of the program would strain