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The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has acknowledged that it faces a variety of obstacles it must overcome if it is to be effective, achieve its goals and improve the state of SA’s communications landscape. These include keeping abreast of developments

SA youth are not as enthusiastic about entrepreneurship as their counterparts abroad and could be short-changing themselves, an expert said on Tuesday. Kobus Engelbrecht, of the Sanlam/Business Partners Entrepreneur of the Year competition, said the 2011 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) SA report found that

Black economic empowerment is still vital in SA, trade & industry minister Rob Davies said on Tuesday. “We cannot expect to grow and develop as a country if the leadership of the economy is still in the hands of only a small minority of the society,” he said. Davies was speaking at the

Consumers could go and buy their e-toll tags, as the transport department was busy concluding talks on the matter, minister Ben Martins has said, Beeld reported on Tuesday. Speaking at the launch of national transport month in Soweto on Monday, Martins said more precise plans around the

First National Bank is in final talks with UK-based mPowa, a rival to American firm Square, about using the payments company’s technology to give its clients the ability to accept card payments using mobile phones. mPowa offers a white-label solution that supports multiple

Telkom may have broken JSE listing rules when it did not notify its shareholders that two of its directors would retire from the board this month, according to Monday’s Business Report newspaper. The two, Jackie Huntley and Julia Hope, would be retiring after Telkom’s annual general meeting on 24 October

The first step towards unbundling Telkom’s local loop of copper cables into homes and businesses, is meant to happen in November. But given the terms agreed between the fixed-line operator and the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), it’s not clear whether this deadline will be met. With

Discovery Vitality, the rewards programme owned by Discovery Holdings, has signed a deal with SA’s third mobile operator, Cell C, that will see the two companies launching VitalityMobile, allowing Vitality members to call one another for free if both are using Cell C’s network. VitalityMobile will cost

Vodacom is considering whether or not it should conclude another black economic empowerment deal, says newly appointed group CEO Shameel Joosub. However, no decisions are imminent. Joosub says Vodacom wants “harmonisation” between requirements set out in the Electronic Communications Act

Vodacom has revealed that it will launch its fourth-generation (4G) mobile broadband network in Johannesburg, Durban and Pretoria later this year. These are the same cities where MTN said earlier this week it would launch 4G. Like MTN, Vodacom