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There’s a new kid on the online retail block in South Africa. Going.co.za focuses on excess stock and other clearance items at heavily discounted rates, targeting everyone from individual consumers to small store owners and even informal retailers. Going’s founder, 53-year-old
The results of the 15th Sunday Times annual top brands survey, conducted by TNS South Africa, show that Vodacom is considered the best mobile operator and that Apple’s iPhone is the most desirable handset among South African business users. The survey looks
New communications minister Yunus Carrim has boldly vowed to go where every minister before him has tried and failed: increase Internet penetration and cut the cost of communicating in South Africa. The number of Internet users in the country has
The Gauteng provincial government believes it can train teachers at 2 200 schools in how to use tablet computers in education before the 2014 academic year commences in mid-January. That’s when the schools will be provided with 88 000 tablet computers for use by pupils
The City of Tshwane will soon offer free Wi-Fi connectivity in selected areas around Pretoria. The first phase of the project, which will provide free connectivity to five locations by the end of November, will cover the Tshwane University of Technology’s Soshanguve campus, the University of Pretoria’s Hatfield campus, Tshwane North College
Iconic radio station Capital Radio 604, which broadcast to audiences in KwaZulu-Natal and beyond in the politically turbulent 1980s and 1990s, may soon be back on the medium-wave dial after being off air for the past 17 years. A group of investors, which includes
Sony has made a remarkable comeback in smartphones in the past year. The super-thin 5-inch Xperia Z, regarded as one of this year’s top Android smartphones, has been lauded by critics. Now, say executives at Sony’s regional office, the company is hoping to expand on the Xperia Z’s sales success
The share price of Africa’s largest telecommunications group breached R200 for the first time on Wednesday after it published its interim results for the six months to 30 June 2013. The share touched R200,90/share in intraday trade, but fell back to R199 at the close, a gain
Asymmetry in wholesale mobile call termination rates distorts the market, undermines competition and harms consumers. That’s the view of MTN South Africa CEO Zunaid Bulbulia, who has strongly rejected arguments put forward by Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig, who says
The provincial government in Gauteng has outlined details of a R396m “e-learning solution” designed to replace the controversy-ridden R2,2bn Gauteng Online. It will involve the roll-out of 88 000 Android-powered tablet computers made by China’s
