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A wage agreement has been reached with two of three recognised unions at the South African Post Office, it said on Friday. The agreement would be effective from 1 December, said Simo Lushaba, head of the intervention team appointed by telecommunications and postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele
Vodacom has changed the minimum billing increment or “unitisation” for data, but claims the change will not negatively affect its customers. The mobile operator on Friday confirmed the move, saying it increased the minimum session volume from 1KB to 10KB on in-bundle data depletion and 5KB
Eskom started with scheduled blackouts on Friday afternoon, the power utility said. “Load shedding will continue until 8pm tonight,” it said in a short power update. “We appeal to customers to immediately switch off geysers, pool pumps, air conditioning and
Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications has written a memorandum to the speaker of the national assembly asking for the immediate suspension of SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala. “This follows a second unanimous agreement among committee members that Tshabalala be suspended
Afrihost subscribers who buy broadband ADSL bandwidth from the company have complained vociferously in recent weeks about problems achieving advertised speeds using the Internet service provider’s backbone, with many saying the experience has fallen far short of expectations. The company’s CEO, Gian Visser
South Africa should introduce electronic voting now rather than later, Prof Mzamo Alexander Gumbi said on Thursday. “We should start right now,” Gumbi told a panel interviewing candidates for the position of commissioner of IEC. “Namibia has introduced electronic voting, why can’t South Africa do
It’s unlikely that online gambling in South Africa will take off for the foreseeable future as the department of trade and industry, which is responsible for the sector, is stalling over the licensing of Internet-based operators, according
A Karoo farmer may have stumbled on a crashed test balloon being used by Internet company Google, Beeld reported on Thursday. Urbanus Botha, who doesn’t spend much time in front of computers, at first thought it might be a
The TransUnion Credit Bureau is no longer reflecting disgruntled Cell C client George Prokas as a slow payer, it was reported on Thursday. Prokas’s attorney, Raymond Druker, reportedly told Fin24 that the development paved the way for further discussions between Prokas and Cell C. Last week, Prokas
More people across Africa have access to a cellphone network than they do to electricity, piped water or a health clinic, according to the latest Afrobarometer released on Wednesday. The survey, titled “Developing Africa’s Infrastructure: the Rough Road to Better Services”, also highlights enormous
