All the latest technology news from South Africa and around the world.
The start of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Comedy Central last week pulled 352 855 DStv viewers. The 2,6 rating makes it the highest viewership ever achieved by Comedy Central in South Africa since the channel was launched in Africa on DStv in December 2011. The record rating
Liquid Telecom, the fast-growing pan-African telecommunications company majority owned by Strive Masiyiwa’s Econet Group, is getting ready to file for an initial public offering next year as it steps up expansion of its network across the continent, including South Africa. Masiyiwa, who
Wind farm operators are under no illusion that their small power generation output will be inadequate to meet South Africa’s baseload issues. However, they believe that in time new storage measures and lower costs will change the game radically. Aurora Wind Power head
South African Communist Party (SACP) general secretary Blade Nzimande tore into the media on Friday, describing its content as “horrifying”. He bemoaned what he called a “media monopoly”, saying the situation had gotten worse instead of better since 1994. Media houses did not invest
More than 200 ex-Telkom staff have been issued with consultation letters at their new employer WNS. In June, Telkom announced a restructuring process in which it planned to offer 4 400 employees voluntary severance or early retirement packages. Telkom further said it planned
The Helen Suzman Foundation has asked public protector Thuli Madonsela to probe Eskom, Chancellor House and the ANC following the damning Hitachi revelations. The request follows recent claims by the US Securities Exchange Commission about the
Privately held telecommunications provider Vox Telecom has taken a knife to uncapped ADSL prices, debuting a new 1Mbit/s offering for R99/month that includes both data and ADSL rental charges. Aimed at cost-conscious home users, the new packages range from R89/month for an uncapped
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) wants the chief executive officer of Telkom, Sipho Maseko, fired because of an alleged lack of transformation and job cuts at the company. The union accused Telkom
Retailers have either changed or died and all because of empowered consumers, said Chris Sanderson, co-founder of the UK-based Future Laboratory. He was one of the guest speakers on the first day of the 19th congress of the South African Council of Shopping Centres taking place in Durban this week
South African consumer confidence is on par with the lowest reading recorded during the 2008/2009 recession, according to the FNB/BER Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) on Thursday. Having plunged from -4 index points in the first quarter of 2015 to a 14-and-a-half-year
