Cell C and MTN have chopped prepaid call rates again as South Africa’s mobile price war, which began in 2012, takes a fresh turn. Cell C announced that it is slashing its 66c/minute promotional prepaid offering to just 50c/minute
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Gallo Images is looking into possibly purchasing the South African Press Association (Sapa), the news agency’s chairman said on Thursday. “Gallo is doing a due diligence process, where they are looking at the model, the production issues, the IT requirements, and they are also looking how it could be possible for
Communications minister Faith Muthambi has filed papers opposing the Democratic Alliance’s court challenge to the appointment of SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng. “I have already done that,” she told reporters at
Vodacom has shown good growth in the user base of its South African operation, and turned in a healthy service revenue increase in its international services for the quarter to June 2014. Group revenue for the quarter
Independent Newspapers on Thursday accused Mail & Guardian owner Trevor Ncube of seeking a public spat because he had failed to acquire a portion of it. “Since the failure of his attempted acquisition of a portion of our
Independent Newspapers’ group executive editor Karima Brown on Wednesday accused Mail & Guardian owner Trevor Ncube of telling an “odd bare-faced lie”. “Mr Ncube has called to question the integrity and professionalism of the Independent journalists who have produced our stories on his
South Africa will fail to meet the mid-2015 deadline, agreed to with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), to switch off analogue terrestrial television broadcasts, according to an international research firm. Consulting and research firm Ovum says most sub-Saharan countries, including
South Africa is producing too few doctoral graduates, science and technology minister Naledi Pandor said on Tuesday. Opening debate in parliament on her department’s R6,47bn budget, she told MPs the country currently turned
The Labia Theatre, an institution among cinemagoers in Cape Town, is in trouble and is turning to the Internet for help. Beginning this Thursday and running for 45 days, the four-auditorium Labia
Residents of another upmarket Johannesburg suburb have kick-started the process of building a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in their neighbourhood. Parkview has signalled plans to follow the example of nearby Parkhurst, which has taken an early lead in building FTTH. “We have fast fibre-optic