Browsing: News

All the latest technology news from South Africa and around the world.

South Africa “won’t be held to ransom” by e.tv. That was the warning on Friday by communications minister Faith Muthambi, who was speaking to TechCentral on the sidelines of a Southern African Digital Broadcasting Association event in Johannesburg where she

Public enterprises minister Lynne Brown has seconded Transnet CEO Brian Molefe and appointed him as the acting Eskom CEO with immediate effect after Tshediso Matona was suspended in March. Molefe has been in his role at Transnet

Dinner by candlelight conversations often get heated when a guest boasts that they are exempt from load shedding. Possible reasons for this included living near President Jacob Zuma or other powerful leaders. But this week, the City of Cape Town shed light on this heavy

South Africans could soon experience their first-ever stage four load shedding after Eskom confirmed that the stage allocation would be altered. The current stages of load shedding are stage one, when 1GW is cut from the grid; stage two, when 2GW is cut from the grid

The names of 26 bidding organisations that have each won a piece of South Africa’s R4,3bn set-top box tender have finally been revealed by the state agency tasked with the project. Last week

Independent power producers praised the energy department’s announcement on Thursday that it would be opening the door to a host of new possibilities for the private sector to contribute to the production

Wits University researchers have developed a way to accelerate light that could eventually lead to much faster Internet speeds and benefits for medical technology. Prof Andrew Forbes and his team of the

Technology group Gijima, which plans to delist from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange soon, is in trouble with the bourse after failing to submit its interim report within the three-month period stipulated

First National Bank said on Thursday that it will provide 10 000 generators at “significantly discounted prices” to small businesses and residential clients in an effort to “alleviate the immediate

Business Connexion, the IT services group currently the subject of a R2,7bn takeover by Telkom, has turned in a robust performance in the six months ended 28 February 2015, with diluted headline earning per share rising by 23,6% on the back of a 16%