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The Democratic Alliance will submit an application to roads agency Sanral on Thursday to gain access to all documentation related to the implementation of e-tolling in Gauteng. DA MP Ian Ollis said this would be done under the Promotion of Access to Information Act

Independent Newspapers has confirmed reports that its popular IOL website came under a sustained denial-of-service attack on Wednesday, apparently by a group calling itself Anonymous Africa. The website, one of South Africa’s most popular general news sites, was unavailable for

Money collected from e-tolling in Gauteng will not go overseas, roads agency Sanral said on Wednesday. “Of course, everyone is now jumping on the political bandwagon that once e-tolling commences, all the collected monies will be going overseas. This is simply not true,” spokesman Vusi Mona said in a statement

Google Drive, the search giant’s online storage and document, presentation and spreadsheet creation service, is now available in 18 new languages, including Afrikaans, Amharic, Swahili and Zulu. This brings the total number of languages Drive supports to 65

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth’s bid to have South Africa’s exchange control system declared unconstitutional could have a devastating effect on the country, the South African Reserve Bank said on Tuesday. Jeremy Gauntlett SC, for the

Telkom will impair the carrying value of its fixed-line network by R12bn, the JSE-listed telecommunications group said on Tuesday. This will reduce its net asset value from about R57/share to R34/share. Telkom said last week that it was considering the impairment

The rand has taken a beating in recent weeks, falling through the R10/US$ barrier, meaning consumers can expect to pay more for just about everything in the months ahead, including consumer electronics and other IT products. The view from business is that

Absa has opened an entirely paperless branch at Johannesburg’s upmarket Hyde Park Corner shopping centre. The branch offers automated queuing systems to minimise the time consumers have to spend in the branch and is the model that the bank will use for all of its branches across South Africa

The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) has raised R2,35m which will go towards its court challenge to e-tolling on Gauteng’s highways, it said on Tuesday. “Just five days later we are able to announce that over R1,35m was raised from the public, plus a further R1m contribution on

Eskom denied on Tuesday morning that “load shedding” has started, according to an interview broadcast on radio station SAfm. According to radio reports, there were power cuts on Monday evening in Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg, Greymont