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Outrage is growing over reports that the Free State government spent R140m on developing a new, integrated website to serve citizens of the South African province. According to a report in the Sowetan, the provincial government paid R140m for the site’s development. Yet a technical interrogatio
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) is facing a legal challenge from GauTV, a prospective broadcaster it denied an operating licence in 2012. Mzansi Community Satellite, trading as
The Free State provincial government spent R140m on its website, it was reported on Monday. Free State director-general Elzabe Rockman signed a three-year contract to redesign the website in 2011, the Sowetan newspaper reported. She had reportedly disputed
Draft legislation could pave the way for the state to e-mail road traffic fines to motorists, it was reported on Monday. Beeld reported that this had emerged from amendments to the Law on the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic (Aarto) published in the Government Gazette in
Businesses in Cape Town’s central business district can now access the city’s fibre network, with service provider RSAWeb the first to offer access. RSAWeb is offering connections of between 25Mbit/s and 1Gbit/s using the city’s fibre infrastructure and hopes that once businesses have embraced the
Basic education minister Angie Motshekga faces strong opposition if she installs fingerprint machines in schools, if the response from outraged teachers is anything to go by. Her critics include the two largest teacher unions, which this week questioned what impact such monitoring could possibly
Logicalis, a subsidiary of JSE-listed multinational IT group Datatec, has agreed to buy the European subsidiaries, excluding the UK business, of 2e2 for €24m (US$31m) in cash and new shares. Logicalis will acquire the business from the administrators of 2e2. In addition, the UK operations
Amid calls by the Democratic Alliance for President Jacob Zuma to fire her, communications minister Dina Pule has hit back at a weekend newspaper report that said her alleged boyfriend, Phosane Mngqibisa, potentially stood to gain from a political instruction she gave in 2012. The Sunday Times
Communications minister Dina Pule’s instruction in May 2012 that state-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech be the manager of the control system for digital terrestrial television may have indirectly benefited her alleged boyfriend
Democratic Alliance MP and spokesman on communications Marian Shinn has called for Dina Pule to be removed as communications minister following new allegations against her published in a weekend newspaper. The Sunday Times reported that Pule’s
