With just four months to go until the deadline to switch off analogue television broadcasts, the digital migration programme may be about to be thrown into disarray once again. This is after a report on Wednesday that says that communications
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Long-troubled technology group Gijima looks set to delist from the JSE after chairman Robert Gumede’s Yebo Guma Investments made an offer on Tuesday evening to buy out the remaining minority shareholders. Guma has
Parliament learnt last Wednesday that a certain “device” would be used as part of security measures for the state-of-the-nation address, national assembly speaker Baleka Mbete has conceded, but said the plan was never to block journalists’ cellphone reception
Mobile operator MTN has made its first play into the consumer cloud computing market – and taken aim at over-the-top rivals like Google and Dropbox – with a cloud service that provides its users with unlimited storage capacity for a fixed monthly fee of R99
Major banks will soon be taking applications for new smart card IDs, home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday. “There are several new innovations that are going to be introduced by the department to assist South Africans for smart ID cards and passports
It will take 20 to 30 months before power utility Eskom has caught up with maintenance and is back on the right track, energy department director-general Wolsey Barnard said on Tuesday. “It’s going to take time, it’s going to take in the vicinity
Gauteng moving towards renewable energy to take pressure off the struggling national energy grid, the province’s infrastructure development MEC Nandi Mayathula-Khoza said on Tuesday. “Solar energy and energy for landfill gas are the most
An urgent application to prohibit the use of mobile network blocking devices in parliament got underway in the high court in Cape Town on Tuesday afternoon. Primedia Broadcasting, Media24, the South African National Editors Forum, the Right to Know campaign
Telkom has announced plans to restructure its business, outsourcing noncore operations, rationalising its IT systems and closing retail stores, among other cost-saving moves. The company
Telkom has denied an allegation made by a labour union on Monday that it intends laying off up to 10 000 employees. The Solidarity trade union said on Monday that it has learnt that Telkom