The Gauteng government’s finance department head Stuart Lumka has been fired for wasting R50m on an IT contract, it was announced on Tuesday. “The province has also requested the state attorney to advise regarding whether to institute
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South Africa’s newest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), me&you mobile, has gone live, launching services through its website. The company’s head, Brett Howell, said in an e-mail that it’s had
Vodacom has launched a new product designed to attract new customers and reward existing customers’ loyalty. Aimed at the prepaid market and clearly meant to drive up usage, Vodacom’s Use & Get
Tower operator Eaton Towers has raised US$350m (about R4,4bn) in new equity funding from existing and new shareholders to fund expansion and acquisitions across Africa, it said on Friday. At the same time, the company has signed
South African-born technology entrepreneur Elon Musk announced on Thursday night the development of a new battery system, the Tesla Powerwall, to store solar energy for later use, addressing a key
E-commerce website Kalahari was taken offline on Thursday night as Takealot said the merger between the two companies’ websites is now officially complete. The site’s expected closure
A total of 1 169 employees at Telkom have been affected by the telecommunications operator’s outsourcing measures, according to figures supplied by the company. In February, Telkom announced restructuring that involve it outsourcing
Information about Eskom’s power crisis is one of the hottest topics that South Africans searched for on Google during April. According to Google’s Trends tool, “load shedding” is one of the top searches performed locally as South Africans face the
Maintenance on fibre cables in Egypt could cause slow Internet access in South Africa on Wednesday. Seacom manages a 17 000km undersea fibre broadband cable that connects to places
Telkom’s normalised headline earnings per share are expected to be between 40% and 60% higher in the year ended 31 March 2015 than they were in the 2014 financial year, the company said on