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A hearing by communications regulator Icasa’s complaints and compliance committee on the Democratic Alliance’s advertisement complaint case against the SABC was postponed on Wednesday night. Committee chairman Wandile Tutani said the matter would be

A hearing by communications regulator Icasa’s complaints and compliance committee on the Democratic Alliance’s advertisement complaint case against the SABC was adjourned on Tuesday night. The hearing would resume on Wednesday at 6pm to give the SABC more time to consult with its legal team

The rejection of the Democratic Alliance’s adverts by the SABC is an infringement on the freedom of expression, the party’s legal team argued on Tuesday evening. Steven Budlender, for the DA, said the SABC had rejected one television advert and five radio adverts

It’s all about the cloud for Microsoft in South Africa. No, not the cirrus and cumulus variety — the software giant is shifting its focus to delivering cloud computing-based services to everyone, on every device. And that includes non-Windows platforms, says Microsoft

The Democratic Alliance is set to go to court to compel communications watchdog Icasa to hear its complaint against the SABC over the broadcaster’s pulling of one of its election advertisements. Icasa had not fulfilled its regulatory and constitutional obligations with regards to the

JSE-listed technology services provider Business Connexion has reported a slight decline in normalised headline earnings per share of 20,7c in the six months ended 28 February 2014, from 21,3c previously. Revenue for the period was R3,1bn

The Right2Know Campaign and SOS: Support Public Broadcasting have written to the controversial SABC board chair, Zandile Tshabalala, to ask her whether she invoked the National Key Points Act to warn staff not to leak information to the public, as staff have claimed. This was not the first time the National Key Points

Johannesburg executive mayor Parks Tau has promised that his administration will roll out a thousand Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the city before the end of his five-year mayoral term in 2016. He made the pledge in his state of the city address, which he delivered in Soweto on Monday. “This year will see the completion of the roll-out of our

Pick n Pay is expanding its relationship with mobile operator MTN, introducing a new Sim card that will allow consumers to earn free airtime and data when shopping at any of the retailer’s stores. The two companies first forged a partnership in 2010 when they launching Mobile Money, a money transfer

Altech has bought the 50% (less one share) of NuPay that it doesn’t already own in a deal valued at R80m, the technology company owned said on Tuesday. The Altron-owned company bought its initial stake in NuPay in 2009. NuPay forms part of the Card Solutions division of Altech, which is to be integrated with the Bytes