The ANC has promised free Wi-Fi as part its 2014 election manifesto, unveiled on Saturday in Mbombela in Mpumalanga. “Government will support and develop free Wi-Fi areas in cities, towns and rural areas,” the manifesto says. It does not provide further detail on the nature
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Five men appeared in the Pretoria specialised commercial crime court on Monday for being part of a bank card cloning syndicate, the Hawks said. The case was postponed until 21 January for a formal bail application, said Hawks’ spokesman Paul Ramaloko
Telkom has held talks with a range of media companies, including America’s Netflix and Comcast, as it looks to build a video-on-demand service on its fixed-line broadband infrastructure in South Africa, its CEO, Sipho Maseko, has been quoted as saying
Roads agency Sanral admits some glitches have been experienced in the e-toll collection system, The Citizen reported on Friday. Spokesman Vusi Mona told the newspaper there had been some “genuine” complaints about the system. “There are genuine customer complaints
Microsoft South Africa MD Mteto Nyati and former Google sub-Saharan Africa boss Stafford Masie have been appointed to the board of JSE-listed education and recruitment company AdvTech. Nyati, who previously worked at IBM South Africa, and Masie, who is spearheading
Roads agency Sanral has denied claims that it lied about the number of e-tags in circulation, it was reported on Thursday. “It would be downright stupid of us to lie about this,” Sanral CEO Nazir Alli was quoted by Business Day as
Transport minister Dipuo Peters’ name is being used by an impostor in a 419 scam, claiming the minister has US$30,5m (over R300m) and needs help in moving the money. “Firstly, let me start by introducing myself as Mrs Elizabeth Dipuo
E-tolling is not a major election issue for the ANC ahead of this year’s elections, roads agency Sanral’s CEO, Nazir Alli, has said. “I don’t think it was a major concern, they just wanted to hear it from the horse’s mouth so to speak; to hear it from our
As thousands of matriculants celebrate the release of their results on Tuesday, universities warned they would not accept walk-in applications. Universities had been inundated with thousands of applications for limited spaces. The Tshwane University of Technology received
The ANC on Monday welcomed the 2013 matric pass rate announced by basic education minister Angie Motshekga, saying it was “particularly pleased” with the improvement in the subjects of mathematics and science. “These results