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Communications minister Yunus Carrim is continuing to engage with warring broadcasters over set-top box control for digital terrestrial television, but government will make a final decision within the next three to four weeks even if final consensus can’t be reached
Roads agency Sanral has been ordered to fix billing problems related to the Gauteng e-toll system, transport minister Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday. Briefing parliament’s transport portfolio committee, Peters conceded there were teething problems with
Data traffic over mobile networks in South Africa will increase by nearly eight-fold in the next five years and grow twice as quickly as fixed Internet traffic. That’s one of the key predictions in networking vendor Cisco’s “Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update
MTN has won a partial victory following a complaint lodged at the Advertising Standards Authority over a television advertisement flighted in October 2013 by rival Vodacom. The commercial centres on a fictional family, the Khumalos. When a member of the family expresses
Former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan, who joined the board of social network Mxit as chairman in September 2013, has acquired a stake in AngelHub Ventures, a Cape Town-based company that provides seed funding to start-up businesses. Kevin Harris, who has worked
The South African Communist Party (SACP) on Tuesday urged the SABC board and parliament’s communications portfolio committee to take decisive action following the public protector’s report. “Decisive action is needed to turn the SABC around in all
The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) has urged parliament’s transport portfolio committee to look beyond roads agency Sanral’s input on Tuesday. “Sanral speaks like a soccer coach whose team has lost 2-0 with an own goal having been scored and
The SABC will analyse public protector Thuli Madonsela’s report, which found its acting chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, had operated above the law. “We have just received the report today,” said SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago
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
