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Communications minister Faith Muthambi has “noted with disgust” media reports on the removal of three SABC board members in terms of which she has been accused by a parliamentary legal team of

Social media has not lived up to the promise of brand engagement, says a local expert. As marketers increasingly look for better ways to engage consumers, SMS and e-mail remain primary tools

Striking MTN employees kept up their picket at the company’s head office near Roodepoort ahead of an expected meeting on Wednesday to break the deadlock. With police officers guarding the entrance to

Parliament’s constitutional and legal services unit has found that communications minister Faith Muthambi effectively acted unlawfully when she threatened SABC board members with removal and again when she removed them. In a statement

City of Johannesburg finance head Geoff Makhubo has announced the allocation of millions of rand towards technology investment and the development of a “smart city”. Makhubo said a R1,2bn operating budget and a R1,5bn capital

International companies that supplied content to South Africa via online streaming or subscription services should pay their fair share of tax, PwC said on Tuesday. Such multinational companies

Road traffic enforcement may change radically in April next year when the long-awaited Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act takes effect countrywide. It will also be used for the enforcement of Gauteng’s controversial e-tolls, but that is only

Mobile operator MTN has apologised to customers for service disruptions as strike action continues to impact on operations. “It is with great disappointment that our customers are subjected to the recent service experiences which are as a result of the

Statistics South Africa did not rule out that load shedding has had an impact on the manufacturing sector’s decline in GDP, but added that it could not confirm its impact. “It could just have easily been a lack of interest in products and we might have seen