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In a day in which the penny dropped on racism in South Africa with the Penny Sparrow “monkey” scandal gripping the country, Standard Bank dropped another bomb, announcing the

The class of 2015 has one more sleep until the department of basic education starts releasing matric results eight of the nine provinces from midnight on Tuesday. You can also check your matric results from Tuesday here. Basic Education Minister Angie

Vodacom has not revealed what caused an error that led to several of its customers being double debited last week. Vodacom sent an SMS to customers on Friday afternoon informing them that the company was aware that some accounts had been debited twice owing to a “technical glitch”. The company promised to

The Eskom manager who brought Majuba back to operation after the silo collapse is replacing Roman Crookes as Medupi’s project director with immediate effect. Eskom on Monday appointed Phillip Dukashe to replace Crookes to run Medupi power station without a handover from Crookes

Energy analyst Chris Yelland has expressed concern over the resignation of Roman Crookes, project director at the Medupi power station. Yelland said Crookes’s departure “obviously raises concerns about the institutional memory within Eskom as the engineering, procurement and construction main

Vodacom customers who had their accounts debited twice will be refunded by Monday, according to the cellphone company. On Friday, a number of Vodacom customers complained that their accounts had been debited twice. In an SMS to customers on Friday

If you were experiencing any problems with the messaging service WhatsApp on New Year’s Eve, you were not alone. Users across the globe complained that their WhatsApp messages weren’t going through. Some of them thought that is was connection

South Africa’s third largest mobile network, Cell C, said on Wednesday that its board has accepted an offer from Blue Label Telecoms to acquire 35% of the company for R4bn. The boards of Cell C and its

The 2015 class of matriculants writing the department of basic education’s national senior certificate exams performed worse than last year’s class, monitoring body Umalusi said on Wednesday