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The Western Cape high court on Tuesday dismissed an urgent interim application for an order enforcing uninterrupted audio and a wide-angle shot of the parliamentary chamber during disruptions. Judge Owen Rogers delivered the order within a few minutes
South Africans still prefer physical shops as opposed to buying goods online, according to a PwC survey released on Tuesday. In 2014, the value of online retail sales in South Africa was R5,3bn, retail
Arms manufacturer Denel will work with GEW Technologies, owned by Airbus, on future electronic warfare programmes for South Africa, the parastatal said on Tuesday. Electronic warfare technology
Government-provided set-top boxes for digital terrestrial television will not contain conditional access based on encryption, and prospective pay-television operators wanting to use such a system
Apple’s event at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center was widely expected to focus on the release of the Apple Watch. In a move that took everyone by surprise, however, Apple also released a
Cabinet’s decision to provide free set-top boxes to 5m poor South Africans does not go far enough, two public broadcasting advocacy groups have said. Media Monitoring Africa and the SOS Coalition say government should have required that
South Africa’s inconsistent electricity supply is expected to cost the country around 0,3% of GDP growth, ratings agency Standard & Poor’s said on Monday. “We saw fourth quarter as a fairly pleasant surprise after a fairly disappointing 2014,” chief economist
Just weeks after the not-for-profit South African Press Association (Sapa) announced it would close its doors at the end of…
What’s going on at Microsoft? The company is producing great software – and now hardware – that supports a range of platforms, not just Windows. The latest example of this is the new Office for Mac, which was released in preview form last week. It’s
M-Pesa users in Kenya and Tanzania can now send money to each other electronically using their mobile phones, Vodacom said on Monday. Vodacom has 7m M-Pesa customers in Tanzania, while sister company Safaricom has 18m in Kenya. The
