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Power utility Eskom said on Tuesday it had met its winter electricity demand and urged South Africans to save electricity during summer. “This winter was different, in that long-duration generation maintenance was planned to be done and was implemented,” Eskom CEO Brian Dames said in releasing

The SABC was dealt a blow on Tuesday when it received a disclaimer of opinion for the 2012/2013 financial year, the worst audit opinion, from the auditor-general. A disclaimer is issued if the AG cannot form an opinion and thus declines to present an opinion on an entity’s financial statements

The three partners of Cash Paymaster Services were not assessed in a R10bn social grant tender process, the constitutional court heard on Tuesday. “Evidently, the state should not be in the business of awarding multibillion-rand tenders to persons who have no proven, or assessed

Trade union Solidarity will not blindly back Telkom’s opposition to local-loop unbundling (LLU), which it has done in the past. It will now instead remain neutral on the issue and monitor how the process unfolds, spokesman Marius Croucamp says. Solidarity is the second largest union

First National Bank has increased the number of South African accounts by 8%, or 542 000, in the year to the end of June, underpinning total account growth of 1,1m. Number of transactions processed climbed by 13%, with fees and commissions up by 14%

KMPG has released a new report on customer service in the prepaid mobile industry worldwide that has found that providing excellent customer service across the board is the key to keeping customers loyal and reducing churn. The company undertook a study

The constitutional court will hear arguments on Tuesday relating to the awarding of a social grant tender, which was found to be invalid by a lower court. The unsuccessful bidder, AllPay Consolidated Investment Holdings, argues the tender process was procedurally flawed and unfair, and violated

The ZA Central Registry (ZACR), which administers the .co.za domain and will soon oversee four new geographic generic top-level domains (gTLDs), says the general public should be able to register these new domains from mid-July next year. ZACR CEO Neil Dundas says that

Telkom and its former subsidiary, Nigeria’s Multi-Links, have won a high court order setting aside arbitration proceedings with Blue Label Telecoms and paving the way for a bruising court battle in which Telkom is seeking $528m in damages from Blue Label. Telkom is

Tough action will be taken against employees found to have been responsible for last week’s power outages, Johannesburg electricity utility City Power said on Monday. “While we respect our employee’s right to withhold their labour following lawful processes, interfering or sabotaging the network