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Telecommunications operator Telkom joined First National Bank in having a blue Monday as technical glitches took both institutions offline. First to go down was FNB, with problems apparently associated with its network causing

Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub said the telecommunications operator’s proposed R7bn acquisition of Neotel should have no conditions attached to it as it is “stepping up to the plate” to be South

Electronic payments company Net1 UEPS Technologies has chosen to withdraw from an upcoming social grants tender process following years of controversy. In April last year, the constitutional

First National Bank (FNB) has recovered from a system outage that hit both its website and mobile banking application on Monday morning. “FNB can confirm that it had a brief interruption and

New rules regulating the use of remotely piloted aircraft systems, popularly known as drones, have been signed by transport minister Dipuo Peters and will officially be put into effect on 1 July 2015. The director of civil aviation, Poppy Khoza, said the South African Civil Aviation

As many as 2 000 MTN workers are set to strike from Wednesday to demand higher bonuses. The Communication Workers Union reportedly said in a statement on Friday that the employees would down tools on 20 May

First National Bank was offline on Monday morning, frustrating consumers who took to social media networks, including Twitter, to vent their frustration. An FNB spokesman has confirmed the downtime and has said the bank will issue a holding

Vodacom has reported a 4% decline in full-year headline earnings per share as the mobile group faced big cuts in wholesale inter-network call rates, exchange range volatility and increased retail price competition in its key markets. Net profit declined