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The ANC receiving an erroneous bill from the City of Johannesburg highlights the extent of the ongoing billing crisis in the city, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday. “It also exposes the absurdity of the mayor’s continued denial that there is a crisis,” DA Johannesburg leader Mmusi Maimane said in a
The newly appointed transport minister must put an end to the highly contested e-tolling project, the DA said on Wednesday. The party’s provincial leader John Moodey said Dipuo Peters’s immediate predecessors, Ben Martins and Sbu Ndebele, had relentlessly pushed through the tolls despite widespread
South Africa’s controversy-plagued communications minister has been fired. President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday gave Dina Pule her marching orders, announcing at a hastily arranged media conference at the Union Buildings in Pretoria that current deputy minister of co-operative governance & traditional affairs Yunus Carrim
Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn says fired communications minister Dina Pule won’t be missed by the technology sector, but the communist sympathies of her successor, Yunus Carrim, could prove problematic in a sector that thrives on openness and liberalisation. It could
Yunus Carrim, a former journalist and academic with strong struggle credentials, has replaced Dina Pule as minister of communications with immediate effect. President Jacob Zuma made the announcement at a broad cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday. For the past four years, Carrim has held
The ANC has received an erroneous bill from the City of Johannesburg stating that it owes more than R3,5m in outstanding rates, taxes, and electricity, eNCA reported on its website on Tuesday. The bill, dated 24 May 2013, was for services for the party’s Luthuli House
As part of its increased focus on business elsewhere on the continent, South Africa’s Internet Solutions (IS), a division of Dimension Data, has lit up fibre capacity it’s bought on the West Africa Cable System (Wacs). Wacs is a 5,1Tbit/s design capacity subsea cable that run from
Apple users are the most satisfied and BlackBerry users the least satisfied, a new research survey conducted by the South African Customer Satisfaction Index (Sacsi) claims to show. However, most South Africans are satisfied with their mobile handsets – an overall satisfaction
Financially troubled IT services group Gijima has lost its long-serving chief financial officer, Carlos Ferreira, who is stepping down after eight years in the role. The move comes just two months after Gijima shareholders approved a rights offer, meant to raise R150m in order to meet its “funding
Television licence fees will rise in September, the SABC said on Tuesday. “The annual fee for a domestic, business, dealer and lessor licence will increase by R15 from R250 to R265,” spokesman Kaizer Kganyago said in a statement. “This equals an increase of only R1,25/month
