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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
Just a day after saying it would phase out the 8ta name for its consumer mobile brand, Telkom appears to be backpedalling a bit. In a media statement issued on Saturday, the JSE-listed telecommunications operator says the 8ta brand will not be discontinued but will instead be “repositioned
Telkom looks set to ditch the name “8ta” for its consumer mobile business after pouring millions of rand into building the brand following its launch in 2010. According to a letter sent to Telkom employees by Telkom Mobile MD Attila Vitai, the company plans
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) wants to become the first port of call for anyone looking for information on South Africa’s information and communication technology sector. It hopes that making this information
Vodacom has unveiled its first contract tariff plan that offers subscribers unlimited phone calls and text messages for a fixed monthly fee. The new product forms part of a new portfolio called “Red”. The unlimited plan
