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A total of 38 websites, and not only one, form part of the Free State’s multi-year integrated website project, the provincial government said on Tuesday. “In total, 38 reengineered websites form part of this project, including the provincial government’s utilisation of social media platforms such as
Banking group Absa has launched its first mobile bank branch on a trial basis in the rural town of Idutywa in the Eastern Cape, where the bank’s bricks-and-mortar branch was destroyed in a fire. The “Branch on the move” concept is designed to simulate
Copper theft sank to its lowest level since 2009 in January, the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) said on Monday. Sacci’s Copper Theft Barometer was R11,1m in January this year compared to R12,4m in December, Sacci said in a statement. “This is the lowest
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
