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Communications minister Dina Pule has lashed out in a scathing letter at the SABC board for the suspension of the corporation’s controversial chief financial officer Gugu Duda, the appointment of her replacement, and the reinstatement of acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng, which she
SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng will remain in his position because his removal by the board was not done properly, communications minister Dina Pule said on Thursday. Pule told SABC radio that Motsoeneng would remain in the position because the board was not properly constituted
Financially distressed pay-television broadcaster On Digital Media (ODM), owner of TopTV, has set out a case to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) in which it has argued that it should be allowed to broadcast X-rated content on its bouquet of satellite channels
Universal Music Group and Samsung Electronics, together with African and international music labels and publishers, have launched a pan-African mobile music streaming service called “the Kleek”. The Kleek, designed specifically
Brian Chesky doesn’t have a home. He has spent the last three years sleeping on strangers’ couches, in spare rooms and in vacant holiday homes. In 2010, he decided that the best way to improve Airbnb’s service was a tried and trusted method called “eating your own dogfood” – in other words
The Competition Commission has entered into talks with Telkom with a view potentially to resolving a second broad-ranging investigation against the fixed-line operator outside of the process of formal competition hearings. The move comes just months after the Competition Tribunal
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) on Wednesday vowed to fight the proposed offer of voluntary packages to Telkom workers. “Even if Telkom can use a different concept or wording like voluntary severance packages or early retirement, it means retrenchment, which as CWU we will
An application by TopTV to broadcast three pornography channels will be heard by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa…
A two-day seminar on electronic voting (e-voting) and counting technologies concluded in Cape Town on Tuesday, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said. The purpose of the event was to stimulate debate on electronic voting and counting, vice-chairman Terry Tselane said in a statement
The crippling strike at the Post Office’s Johannesburg and Pretoria sorting centres hasn’t been called off officially but employees are returning to work. The backlog in undelivered mail is expected to take up to four weeks to process. The strike
