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The Democratic Alliance has called on ANC chief whip Stone Sizani to suspend Dina Pule, the former communications minister, as an MP “pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations that she is threatening the safety of other MPs and parliamentary personnel”. Should
Senior ANC MP Ben Turok confirmed on Sunday that he had been assigned bodyguards after a man claimed he was asked to kill parliamentarians probing misconduct allegations against fired communications minister Dina Pule. “The head of parliament’s
The chairman and registrar of parliament’s joint portfolio committee on ethics and members’ interests say they were threatened with harm while conducting their investigation into the conduct of former communications minister Dina Pule. On Wednesday, a multiparty
Former communications minister Dina Pule should face criminal charges for her misconduct, Corruption Watch said on Thursday. “It is important to note that Pule is not an ordinary member of parliament, but held a cabinet post vital to South Africa’s wellbeing and economic prospects,” spokesman
Losses at state-owned Broadband Infraco have widened substantially in the past year, with revenue collapsing by 40% on account of reduced business from the company’s largest customer, Neotel. Higher staff costs and increased network maintenance costs have hit the bottom line
US-based on-demand private driver service Uber has begun offering its services in Johannesburg and plans to begin operations in Cape Town soon. The company began listing Johannesburg drivers on Wednesday this week. Uber connects drivers
Newspaper group Times Media has sold its electronic news wire and finance information service I-Net Bridge to rival McGregor BFA, which is owned by Naspers, for R115m. “I-Net’s future prospects are dependent on being able to compete in a relatively small, proprietary market
Licensed telecommunications operators interested in gaining access to Telkom’s “last mile” of copper-cable infrastructure into homes and businesses have been given insight this week into how the industry regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa
Just days after saying it would hold off on publishing draft regulations on unbundling Telkom’s local loop, so as to give new communications minister Yunus Carrim a chance to review them, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has staged an about-turn and
Open-access telecommunications infrastructure company FibreCo is turning its attention to its next big project after completing construction of a fibre-optic link between Johannesburg and East London. The 1 000km Johannesburg to East London route, which follows
