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Former top bankers Michael Jordaan and Paul Harris are shareholders in a company that has made an offer to buy Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), the company that owns iBurst and Broadlink, TechCentral has established. Technology company Multisource, in which Jordaan and the Harris family
The cash-strapped, strike-hammered South African Post Office is on the brink of collapse, MPs heard on Wednesday. “The financial situation…
Icasa chairman Stephen Mncube has downplayed the impact of a decision by communications minister Faith Muthambi to ask four of the communications regulator’s councillors to leave before they have served a customary handover period of 45 days. However, in a statement, Mncube does not address the
Criminals intent on stealing from homes and offices are attempting to gain entry into premises by posing as Telkom technicians, the telecommunications operator warned on Wednesday. The evolving modus operandi of criminals is of “great concern”, managing executive Jacqui O’ Sullivan
Desperate for your favourite international band to tour South Africa? You will soon be able to do more than just wish quietly for it to happen thanks to a new crowdsourcing platform that wants to give music fans a voice. Inbound Sound wants to give South Africans a voice about which acts
Broadband Infraco, the state-owned company created by the department of public enterprises in the mid-2000s to challenge Telkom’s then absolute monopoly in national telecommunications infrastructure, has reported a loss of R143m for the year to March 2014. This is a slight
Government may be considering selling its stake in minority Vodacom as it seeks funding to rescue electricity supply utility Eskom, according to a report published on Wednesday. The report on Bloomberg, a wires agency, quotes unnamed sources as saying that government has approached financial
Most company directors, CEOs and chief financial officers in JSE-listed companies are white males, according to a South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (Saica) survey released on Wednesday. “Seventy-five percent of directorships are still held by whites
Telkom will not withdraw notices of termination involving 105 staff members, despite a demand from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) that it do so. The termination letters were issued legitimately issued in line with the agreed upon
Communications minister Faith Muthambi has ordered that four councillors at communications regulator Icasa whose terms are ending leave the institution and not stay on for a 45-day handover period, despite the fact that
