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South Africa is intent on forging ahead with the nuclear build programme, which will see the capital investment in as many as nine nuclear power stations, but the state won’t say how much it will cost. The detailed budget breakdown, the funding model
Licensed taxi operators are constrained by legislation that inadvertently gives online operator Uber an unfair advantage in public transport, the Western Cape Metered Taxi Council has said. “The Western Cape Metered Taxi Council does not own any
Two Uber customers who were intimidated by metered taxi drivers outside the Sandton Gautrain station on Monday had a warning for fellow fans of the app-based service. Shaken but not stirred
The South African government should not get involved in the high-speed mobile broadband spectrum market, warned an international body. “We don’t want a new monopoly. We’ve
South Africa’s adoption of digital terrestrial television (DTT) should be carefully evaluated and perhaps even dumped, says an industry insider. “Fundamentally, we need to be questioning why we’ve adopted this policy in
Former Microsoft South Africa MD Mteto Nyati has been appointed as the new CEO of MTN South Africa, a spokesman for the telecommunications operator said on Monday. Nyati, who was appointed as group head of MTN’s enterprise business in
The emergence of as many as two dozen rivals in the fibre-to-the-home broadband market is good for Telkom, good for consumers and good for the economy, Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko said at
Less than a week after the labour court ordered Telkom to suspend a section 189 retrenchment process, the company has decided to abandon that approach and has opted instead to offer voluntary
Ahmad Farroukh is leaving as CEO of MTN South Africa to take up the top job at Saudi Arabia’s second largest telecommunications operator, Etihad Etisalat, which trades at Mobily. Farroukh, who has been CEO of MTN for the
Privately held telecommunications provider Vox Telecom has launched an uncapped voice product for consumers that have fibre-to-the-home broadband. The product provides unlimited calls to mobile phones as well as national and local
