In what can only be described as a victory for MultiChoice and its allies, government has rejected any notion of an encryption system based on conditional access in its final amendment to South Africa’s
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The South African Communist Party has expressed concern at the recent developments at the SABC, expressing its worry about at the removal of ANC-aligned member Hope Zinde from the SABC board for her apparent opposition to the sale of the public broadcaster’s
Deploying aerial fibre, rather than burying it, will significantly reduce the cost of expanding fibre-to-the-home broadband in South Africa, greatly improving the business case at the same time
Communications minister Faith Muthambi on Tuesday revindicated sweeping powers to hire and fire the SABC’s top staff and initiate the removal of board members. Briefing MPs, she challenged the notion that the SABC was an independent public broadcaster
Imagine accessing supercomputing infrastructure over the Internet? A small South African company, based at Wits University in Johannesburg, is doing just that, providing some of the country’s biggest companies – and universities around the world – with access to infrastructure
The payment of about R10,8m in “incentives” last year to 10 top Eskom officials was challenged by the Democratic Alliance on Tuesday, with the party calling for the executives to pay back the money. The DA also wants public enterprises minister Lynne Brown to explain to
The Democratic Alliance on Tuesday called for the removal of Eskom board chairman Zola Tsotsi as head of an inquiry into the utility’s performance, as announced by public enterprises minister Lynne
Fibre infrastructure provider Dark Fibre Africa reported a 15% year-on-year improvement in revenue to R468m in the six months ended 30 September 2014, shareholder Remgro has revealed
First National Bank has brought cardless cash withdrawals to its smartphone banking application, allowing the company’s clients to withdraw money at an ATM even if they are not carrying their bank card. Cardless cash withdrawals have been available
The final broadcast digital migration policy will be published in the Government Gazette next week, the communications department said on Monday. “The new policy seeks to clarify the use of a control system