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The Democratic Alliance has called on communications minister Yunus Carrim, in his capacity as shareholder representative at the SABC, to instruct the public broadcaster’s board to suspend its acting chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, with immediate
Successive SABC boards allowed controversial acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng to operate above the law, public protector Thuli Madonsela said on Monday. She released a report entitled “When governance and ethics fail” at a media briefing
Naspers’s share price has added nearly a third in the past three months and has more than doubled in the past year as investor excitement in its Chinese affiliate, fast-growing communications and e-commerce firm Tencent, reaches fever pitch
Fibre-optic telecommunications specialist Dark Fibre Africa has announced it is to acquire Conduct, a last-mile fibre developer that provides high-speed access to business customers in South Africa’s urban centre. DFA has traditional focused on metropolitan
The submission deadline for a draft review of the end-user and subscriber service charter has been extended, Icasa said on Monday. The extension was moved from January 21 to March 14, said spokesman Paseka Maleka in a statement. “The extension has been granted based on
Parliament’s transport portfolio committee will be briefed on Gauteng’s e-tolls on Tuesday, roads agency Sanral said. “We look forward to the opportunity to explain what went wrong with e-tolling, but also what went right,” spokesman Vusi Mona said in a statement on Monday. Of the 2,6m vehicles
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, facing a legal challenge brought on an urgent basis at the high court by MTN, has decided to delay implementation of new wholesale call termination regulations to 1 May 2014. The regulations, which govern the fees operators can charge
The decision by mobile operator MTN South Africa to take communications regulator Icasa to court over looming cuts to wholesale call rates “should not in any way be construed as an attempt to keep the cost of telecommunications high as has been inferred in certain quarters”. TechCentral revealed on
The Communication Workers Union’s dispute with the South African Post Office is not over, the union said on Friday. “We would like to put on record that our dispute with the Post Office over several issues, key to them being salary increments, remains in force,” general secretary Thabo Mogalane
The ZA Central Registry (ZACR), which manages the .co.za. Internet domain space, has a new CEO. Lucky Masilela is taking the reins from Neil Dundas, who becomes the organisation’s chief operating officer. Masilela will work closely with Dundas. Under Dundas, the ZACR has
