Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa director Bernie Fanaroff will retire at the end of next year. Former South African Nuclear Energy Corporation CEO Rob Adam will take over as “director designate” of the project, which will
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Load shedding occurred on Sunday to ensure South Africa’s power grid did not suffer a blackout, Eskom said. This followed the collapse of a coal silo, silo number 20, at the Majuba power station early Saturday afternoon, thereby severely
Eskom began rolling blackouts countrywide on Sunday due to a loss of capacity at its Majuba power station in Mpumalanga, it said. A crack in a coal storage silo on Saturday afternoon caused the loss of 1,8GW, it said in a statement
Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Virgin Mobile, which wants to have a million active customers on its books within three…
There is a “mountain” of undelivered mail at the South African Post Office (Sapo), MPs heard on Friday. “We have a mountain of mail that is undelivered that is now quite substantial,” Post Office public affairs general manager Andrew Nongogo told members of parliament’s telecommunications and postal
Vodacom has reversed a software glitch that led to some subscribers’ phone numbers being leaked, it said on Friday. The mobile network recently ran a software update to increase security on certain opt-in services and facilities allowing customers to charge purchases to their phone bill, spokesman
Copper theft increased to R13m in September, up from R12m the previous month, according to the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (Sacci’s) Copper Theft Barometer. “This is the fourth monthly increase in the year in what
South Africa’s department of telecommunications and postal services and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will collaborate on a new project to test “new, sustainable approaches to bringing broadband connectivity to rural post offices”. The idea, according to a statement issued by the ITU
The Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa), the government agency tasked with bridging South Africa’s digital divide, has provided details of those who will qualify for a subsidy when buying a set-top box for watching digital terrestrial television. The subsidies proposed range from
On Friday, Cape Town will launch a pilot programme that will allow residents and visitors to the city to pay for kerbside parking in the central business district with mobile payments app SnapScan. The service will be piloted in conjunction with Street Parking Solutions, the kerbside parking marshals