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MultiChoice is merging its DStv Online and DStv Mobile businesses and has made a number of management changes, including moving mobile CEO Mark Rayner into the newly created position of chief operating officer of MultiChoice South Africa. At the same time
Telkom has suspended its chief financial officer, Jacques Schindehütte, pending the outcome of a disciplinary process. “The board was recently made aware of certain allegations and appointed an independent law firm to investigate them,” the telecommunications operator says in a statement
Two men lost a battle against Internet service provider MWeb after claiming the company was misleading customers with its “uncapped ADSL” offering, the Advertising Standards Authority said this week. According to the ASA’s ruling on the matter
Business Day Television (BDTV) and CNBC Africa have become embroiled in a dispute over alleged plagiarism after the former broadcaster, formerly known as Summit TV, accused its competitor of copying a series of messages posted on Twitter during yesterday’s midterm budget speech by finance
The South African market has continued to be “challenging” for MTN as a result of what the telecommunications group calls “regulatory and competitive actions”. In a quarterly update for the three months ended 30 September, the group’s CEO, Sifiso Dabengwa, says subscriber growth was
Home affairs minister Naledi Pandor and finance minister Pravin Gordhan will decide whether to waive the fee for new smart ID cards, the home affairs department said on Thursday. “As [Pandor] has indicated in parliament, she is in discussion with national treasury regarding fees for certain
Minister in the presidency and National Planning Commission head Trevor Manuel has warned that South Africa is falling behind in information technology and has issued a challenge to the industry to turn the situation around. Manuel was speaking at the State IT Agency’s
Businesses need to focus on the threat posed by cybercrime, a law firm said on Wednesday. “If I was speaking to you two years ago, the bulk of my practice was procurement fraud, and things like business hijackings, financial statement fraud and the like,” Dave Loxton, the head of business crime
MWeb has moved to appoint a new head of its business division. Debbie Pretorius has been named as the new GM for MWeb Business, the Internet service provider said on Wednesday. Pretorius replaces Andre Joubert, who reportedly left in August to join telecommunications
Cybercrime is a national crisis costing the country R1bn/year, a law firm said on Wednesday. The US Federal Bureau of Communications listed South Africa as the sixth most active country where cybercrime took place. Informal consensus within the private
