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SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala on Wednesday lost her court bid to halt a parliamentary inquiry into whether she lied about her qualifications. “Order for relief [is] refused,” said Western Cape high court judge Elizabeth Baartman in a judgment that lasted only a few seconds. Baartman did not
Kenya has become the third African country after Zambia and Tanzania to get the Facebook-led Internet.org application, giving Airtel customers in that country zero-rated access to a range of services, including Facebook, Wikipedia, Daily Nation, SuperSport and BBC News. Speaking at the opening keynote
A large Cell C banner put up by a disgruntled customer along Beyers Naude drive in Johannesburg has been vandalised. The banner, which appeared professionally printed and apparently bore the Cell C logo, was prominently displayed on the wall of the WorldWear mall along the busy road
Facebook and other so-called over-the-top service providers cannot put propositions on the table that are not profitable for mobile operators and doing so would be “contrary to our goal”. That’s the view of Chris Daniels, who heads Internet.org, the Facebook-led initiative to bring affordable Internet
As the debate over so-called over-the-top (OTT) service providers such as WhatsApp and Facebook continues to rage in the mobile telecommunications industry, MTN South Africa CEO Ahmad Farroukh has called for “balanced cooperation” between operators and OTT players. Farroukh says in a statement
A 96MW photovoltaic solar plant backed in part by US Internet giant Google has gone live in the Northern Cape, two months ahead of schedule, its backers said on Tuesday. The project is the largest solar installation in Africa, they said. SolarReserve, which develops utility-scale solar power projects
Post Office workers should return to work immediately following the voluntary resignation of the company’s board, parliament’s portfolio committee on telecommunications and postal services said on Tuesday. “The resignations came in
Johannesburg has placed 29th out of 40 cities in a new ranking on ICT maturity. The report, by Ericsson, has placed Cairo, Egypt in 35th place, while Lagos, Nigeria is in 38th position. Ericsson’s latest Networked Society City Index ranks the 40 cities’ ICT maturity in terms of the leverage they get from technology
A full six months after President Jacob Zuma announced he would split the department of communications in two, his office appears set to issue a new proclamation to determine the transfer of functions between the new departments of communications and telecommunications
Democratic Alliance MP Natasha Michael on Tuesday demanded public enterprises minister Lynne Brown supply parliament with all maintenance records for the Majuba power station in Mpumalanga. In what appears to be a continuation
