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The South African Press Association will be reconstituted and commercially revamped which will include an expanded shareholder base, its board announced on Monday. “The intentions are that the independent domestic wire service’s 76-year-old nonprofit business model
Three men were arrested in Tembisa, north east of Johannesburg, on Friday in connection with the recent spate of mall…
Monday would mark 100 days until the Medupi power station’s unit six is powered up, Eskom said. “It’s incredibly exciting, and at the same time, remains a daunting challenge as projects of this scale and complexity navigate potential technical, operational, contractual and staffing risks daily,” interim
Grand plans for the revamped government communications portfolio have been a bitter disappointment, with the minister of the newly created portfolio, Faith Muthambi, having in effect been sidelined after a disastrous first three months in office. She struggles to speak in public
Standard Bank will undertake IT maintenance this Sunday morning, meaning its online and cellphone banking facilities could be offline. The maintenance could also affect its smartphone banking application. “The planned downtime on Sunday is to do routine maintenance
Communications regulator Icasa has set aside the first three days of October for public hearings into the state of competition in South Africa’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The hearings are part of the regulator’s high-level inquiry into the subject, announced
Apple’s September 2014 keynote was highly anticipated and #applelive supplanted #indyref, #Ukraine and #ISIS from the Twitter trending leaderboard. A huge part of the hype surrounding it was Tim Cook’s announcement that Apple would be launching an entirely new gizmo
MultiChoice subsidiary M-Net is launching two new channels on the pay-TV operator’s DStv platform. The new channels, M-Net Edge and Vuzu Amp, will be available to DStv Premium subscribers only. The channels will go on air for the first time in October and being billed by MultiChoice
Times Media Group on Wednesday took the wraps off a “cord cutting” video-on-demand (VOD) service called Vidi. Vidi offers both subscription streaming and movie rental services via the Internet. The JSE-listed media group is attempting
South Africa’s third mobile operator, Cell C, will oppose the proposed mobile network sharing deal between Telkom and MTN. “Cell C has been asked to comment on the proposed transaction by the
