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Vodacom announced on Friday that its CEO, Shameel Joosub, acquired nearly R3,5m worth of the company’s shares this week at an average purchase price of R129,35/share. News of the share purchase comes just days after Vodacom announced that Joosub had also been granted 95 482 new shares as
The SABC on Thursday rubbished claims it is preparing to “dump” almost all its Afrikaans language shows on SABC2 and move the language’s programming to SABC3. This was after a blog titled “TV with Thinus”, reportedly written by a Thinus Ferreira, was published on Thursday claiming that Afrikaans was getting
City Power announced on Thursday that it would increase its tariffs by an average of 7% from 1 July after the National Electricity Regulator of South Africa approved hikes. Nersa approved City Power’s tariff increase application across different consumer segments
The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Thursday called for a specialised copper theft unit, following three consecutive months of theft increases. “Although the South African Police Service has done excellent work with practical legislative initiatives to curb copper theft thus
Nokia South Africa, now part of Microsoft, announced two new devices at a launch event in Johannesburg on Thursday evening. The Nokia Lumia 630 is the company’s latest midrange Windows Phone and set for its South African debut, while the 930, its new flagship, is also
A team of South African astronomers have discovered a triple super-massive black hole system, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in South Africa said on Wednesday. “The discovery demonstrates that South Africa has the scientific and technical expertise to be a world leader in radio astronomy,” project director
In a move that will be regarded as a direct challenge to South Africa’s big banks, retailer Pick n Pay and mobile operator MTN have taken the wraps off a new, low-cost banking solution and free money transfer service that will be offered to consumers who sign up for a
South African social network Mxit has revealed its latest user numbers and the ways people engage with its services. The latest numbers show a decline over last year in active users, from 6,5m to 4,9m. Despite the decline, it appears those still using it are finding it increasingly sticky. Average daily time per user
Comedy Central has canned former radio host Gareth Cliff’s television show, the “Gareth Cliff Show”, a month and a half after it was launched on the channel, according to the Channel24 website on Wednesday. The show, an Internet radio programme shown on TV, reportedly failed to attract enough
The Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa), the body charged with developing communications technology infrastructure in underserviced parts of the country, has slammed the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) over its probe of the appointment of the agency’s CEO, Zami Nkosi. In a statement, Usaasa
