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Thirty-three-year-old Vivid Tjipura, a qualified state prosecutor, has scooped a R100 000 prize for a concept of using mobile airtime as an emergency form of payment for taxi fare. The service, called Airtaxi, advances airtime to minibus taxi commuters if they run out
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has come out in support of an MWeb high court application against Telkom at the high court in Pretoria over the telecommunications operator’s imposition of a “transit fee” on the Internet service provider. TechCentral revealed
Science and technology minister Derek Hanekom on Tuesday unveiled programmes in Carnarvon, the town nearest to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) site, to boost maths and science education in the area. South Africa will be sharing the world’s largest telescope, which comprises
Dimension Data Middle East and Africa chairman and Convergence Partners founder Andile Ngcaba has been named to a top international panel on which he will contribute ideas on the future of Internet governance, alongside Internet luminaries such as Google vice-president Vint Cerf
Technology services company Business Connexion (BCX) has reported an improvement in normalised headline earnings. For the year ended 31 August 2013, normalised headline earnings per share rose by 4%, from 50,6c last year to 52,2c. The company, which is
Roads agency Sanral has more than 1,4m unsold e-tags, according to transport minister Dipuo Peters. “Sanral procured 2,1m e-tags over the past three years; a total of 1,4m have not been allocated,” she said in a written reply to a parliamentary question. The figures imply 679 000 e-tags have
Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig earlier on Monday suffered what the company is describing as a “minor stroke”. “He is currently recovering in hospital and is responding well to treatment,” Cell C said in a statement. “He is expected to make a full recovery.” The company said Cell C
Telkom is in talks with a number of parties with regard to finding a solution to its loss-making Telkom Mobile business, group CEO Sipho Maseko said in Pretoria on Monday. Maseko, speaking to media and analysts at Telkom’s 2014 interim results presentation, said
Telkom group CEO Sipho Maseko said on Monday that the partially state-owned telecommunications operator is keen to be intimately involved in the deployment of a national broadband network into areas of the country that are not currently well served. But Maseko warned that government
It has emerged that suspended Telkom chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte was granted an interest-free R6m loan by the telecommunications operator to allow him to buy shares in the company. But Telkom is now concerned the loan may have been in breach of the Companies Act
