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SABC board chair Zandile Tshabalala was nominated by her board to act as group CEO of the public broadcaster shortly after Lulama Mokhobo resigned from the post, but the communications minister was not having any of it. Tshabalala’s nomination to the acting post had to be approved
JSE-listed technology company Mustek has won a contract to supply R128m worth of signalling and telecommunications equipment developed by China’s Huawei to Zambia Railways. Mustek will supply the equipment to a consortium made up of Huawei International, Bombardier Transportation and Zambian
Eskom’s power emergency has been lifted, the power utility said on its Twitter account. “Urgent Notice #Eskom lifted the power emergency at 10pm. Power has been restored in all areas,” it tweeted on Thursday night. On Friday around 7.30am, however, the Eskom load shedding website still bore the warning
Telkom has confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in South Africa’s telecommunications industry: that it is in talks with mobile operator MTN about a deal involving its loss-making mobile division. It confirmed to shareholders by way of a statement on the JSE’s Sens
RainFin, a start-up promising to disrupt the financial services sector by allowing credit-worthy South Africans to engage in person-to-person lending, cutting out the banks in the process, has sold 49% of its equity to … a bank. The Cape Town-based company has sold the equity to Barclays Africa for an
Government has not received any reports that the economy has been affected by power cuts, water & environmental affairs minister Edna Molewa said on Thursday. Briefing reporters at parliament on behalf of cabinet, Molewa said a call had been received from Eskom on Thursday morning concerning the power cuts which
The City of Cape Town started implementing “stage three” power cuts on Thursday, the city said. “Stage three is the highest level of load shedding possible,” said spokesman Neil Ballantyne. The schedule of affected areas was available on the city’s website. “The city will keep
Yolisa Phahle has been named as the new CEO of M-Net South Africa, parent company MultiChoice said on Thursday. Phahle is currently director for local interest channels at M-Net. She joined the group in 2005 as GM of Channel O. In 2009, she was appointed as director
Eskom will start power cuts from 9am on Thursday, a spokesman confirmed. “There will be load shedding in different suburbs across the country,” said Eskom spokesman Andrew Etzinger. He said it was likely to continue until 10pm. Municipalities were informed of the need
Eskom declared an emergency on Thursday morning and warned of possible power cuts. Spokesman Andrew Etzinger said seven days of heavy rain had left coal stocks wet. “We have asked our large industrial customers, to reduce their consumption by 10%, but it appears
