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The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (Icasa’s) complaints and compliance committee was meant to hear a complaint laid against Screamer Telecoms this week but has had to postpone the matter until September because its star witness, Sebastian Meyer, who investigated
Copper theft decreased in May, the South African Chamber of Commerce of Industry (Sacci) said on Tuesday. According to the Sacci Copper Theft Barometer, copper worth R9m was stolen in May, compared to R10m in April. This was the lowest level since the barometer’s inception, and was a clear indication that
Core Group, the company that distributes Apple products in South Africa, has revealed recommended retail prices for the latest generation of MacBook Air ultraportable notebooks. At the same time, Sony has revealed prices for its latest Vaio models, which compete directly with the Air
The South African arm of German technology services company T-Systems has won a R67,5m contract from the department of water affairs to manage and modernise the SAP enterprise resource planning applications the department uses. The contract term is three years and the
Naspers’s decision, 12 years ago, to buy a stake in Chinese instant-messaging, entertainment and online advertising company Tencent continues to pay big dividends for the South African-headquartered media and technology group. Financial results published on Tuesday
The department of communications is “outraged” by a press ombudsman ruling that cleared the Sunday Times of violations of the South African press code and will appeal the decision, communications minister Dina Pule’s spin doctor, Wisani Ngobeni, said on Monday. On Saturday, press ombudsman
Advances in technology, coupled with the falling cost of hardware and software, have made it easier than ever to work in animation. The result has been studios springing up all over the world, including South Africa. Now, thanks to increasingly speedy and reliable connectivity and a weakening
Police have been forced to seek help from cellphone manufacturer Apple in the US to gain access to murder accused paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s phone, The Mail on Sunday reported. Pistorius could reportedly not remember the four-digit passcode needed to unlock a cellphone he was using on the night his
The press ombudsman has on Saturday dismissed three complaints made by communications minister Dina Pule against the Sunday Times. One of the complaints made by Pule concerned the editor of the Sunday Times, Phylicia Oppelt. Pule complained that Oppelt had acted unethically by handing over
Naspers and Tencent, in which it holds a 34% stake, has acquired Indian online ticketing company RedBus through their joint venture company Ibibo. The value of the deal has not been disclosed, but reports suggest the value the deal was over US$100m (R1bn). The Times of India reported on
