Google is not the only big US technology company getting into the telecommunications business. Microsoft and Facebook have just announced they will build a super-fast transatlantic subsea cable with a design capacity of 160Tbit/s. The cable system
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South Africa will not turn into “another Venezuela”, finance minister Pravin Gordhan said in parliament on Thursday. “We are miles away from Venezuela. We are a well-managed fiscus,” Gordhan said at the end of a long debate on South Africa’s economy
The SABC late on Thursday said it will, with immediate effect, no longer broadcast “destructive and regressive” footage of public violence that involves the burning of public institutions such as schools in its news bulletins. “We are not going to
Former MTN Group CEO Sifiso Dabengwa and two other well-known ICT industry executives, Alan Farthing and Clive Butkow, have joined the board of the recently delisted technology group Gijima
MTN has launched a pilot broadcasting service using digital terrestrial television. The pilot, being run in Nigeria, follows the decision by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation to award its
Videogaming as spectactor sport? You betcha! South Africa’s biggest sports broadcaster, SuperSport, owned by DStv parent MultiChoice, has announced it has signed up to broadcast ELeague, featuring
A new research report has pegged the software piracy rate in South Africa at 33%, a one percentage point decline since the country was last surveyed in 2013. The report, by the BSA The
South Africa’s producer price index (PPI) increased by 7% in April, a slight decrease from the 7,1% increase recorded in March, Statistics South Africa announced on Thursday. The PPI for final
A bid by the Democratic Alliance to introduce legislation to regulate online gambling was rejected in the national assembly on Thursday. The Remote Gambling Bill, introduced by the DA, was criticised as an attempt to take food
A vote on whether to appoint former Independent Electoral Commission chairwoman Pansy Tlakula as chairwoman of the newly-formed Information Regulator was postponed by the national assembly on Thursday. There were too many empty