The power system was tight but manageable with no rolling blackouts expected, Eskom said on Wednesday. “No load shedding [is] expected as things stand,” spokesman Andrew Etzinger said. “We are taking this week one day at a time
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South Africa would be in “serious trouble” if the existing e-tolling debt was not settled, roads agency Sanral told the e-toll review panel in Pretoria on Wednesday. “There is no new money,” said Sanral CEO Nazir Alli. Alli said that currently the agency had
Free Wi-Fi provider Project Isizwe will offer users access to free video-on-demand (VOD) content, its backers announced on Wednesday. The offering, called WiFi TV, is a mobile-friendly VOD service available for unlimited access
Roads agency Sanral blamed the e-tolls review panel for negatively affecting the agency’s final bond auction for the year on Wednesday. “Investor confidence in Sanral has been negatively impacted by the uncertainty created by the
The South African-developed Payment Pebble, the brainchild of entrepreneur Stafford Masie, has been launched in Australia with the country’s third…
MTN South Africa and two other big African operators, Airtel and Tigo, intend launching phones running Mozilla’s open-source, Linux-based Firefox OS platform, it has emerged. Firefox OS is meant as a rival to platforms such
The energy department warned that South Africa faces unplanned power outages unless R68 billion was invested in the electricity maintenance infrastructure backlog, The Star reported on Wednesday. The backlog went from R38b in 2006/2007 to
Those who have been hankering for a .joburg, .durban or .capetown city top-level domain need wait no longer. The ZA…
Transport minister Dipuo Peters on Tuesday said she and her team would withdraw from the e-tolls review panel proceedings if they were “taken on”. Posing questions to Peters and the transport department, a legal expert
Government has learnt lessons from the Gauteng e-tolling system, which is now largely being rejected, transport minister Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday. “The lessons we learnt are not to implement any project that has not been