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A scarce-skills allowance for teachers and specialised secondary schools for mathematics and science are among Democratic Alliance proposals to solve SA’s education crisis. “Yes, we will overhaul the whole system. You can’t simply pass mathematics with 40%, or 33%. If you can’t get 51% in a mathematics exam, you can’t count
IT mogul Robert Gumede was awarded R53m in damages and costs by a UK court against his former business partner John Sterenborg, it was reported on Monday. The UK ruling reinforced an order by the high court in Johannesburg in favour of Gumede in 2006, Business Day reported. “I was labelled as a corrupt
Copper theft in the country declined from R23m in May to R17,9m in June, the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) said on Monday. Sacci said its Copper Theft Barometer showed a third substantial decline since the peak of R34,7m in March. Furthermore, Sacci’s new Copper Theft Volume Indicator
The cold weather experienced across SA has resulted in a huge increase in national electricity expenditure, power utility Eskom said on Monday. CEO Brian Dames told a business executives’ meeting in Pretoria that the power consumption bill between 5pm and 9pm daily had been “staggering”. “This
As the Zambezi River surged past in the background, destined to plummet 100m down the Victoria Falls a mere 15 minutes’ walk away, the Zambian government last week launched GOtv in Livingstone, the country’s fourth largest city. GOtv is MultiChoice Africa’s new offering, which plays in the digital terrestrial television space. It offers consumers
In February, communications minister Dina Pule announced that the digital television switch-on was being moved from April to September. When a country switches from analogue television to digital, there are two important dates. The first is when digital television signals are launched and the second is when the analogue
SA consumers have all but abandoned the chequebook as a means of payment, with corporate use declining severely in recent years, as technology takes over. Apart from the obvious security problems with cheques, the lower cost and added convenience of electronic channels mean chequebooks could soon join audio
MWeb Business has cut uncapped broadband asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) prices, lowering the cost of 10Mbit/s uncapped and unshaped bandwidth by R500/month to R2 999 and reducing the price of its 1Mbit/s service to R759. Both products exclude Telkom line rental charges. At the same time
A fresh row may be brewing over banking clients sharing their Internet banking details with online personal financial management (PFM) sites after Nedbank on Thursday announced it was launching its own PFM product in which it will allow
Local video company Zoopy, which is now wholly owned by Vodacom, has lost its founders, CEO Jason Elk and operations director Pat Elk. Zoopy was founded in 2007 as local and mobile competitor of sorts to YouTube. At launch, the service allowed users to upload and share video content, images, podcasts and blogs, but is now more
