South Africa has proposed the radical relaxation of rules over foreign ownership in local broadcasters as well as the scrapping of restrictions that prevent cross-ownership of broadcasting services.
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Liquid Telecom has appointed industry veteran Deon Geyser as CEO of its South African operation, replacing Reshaad Sha, who left in August to launch his own company.
Microsoft has used a court order to take control of computers that were installing ransomware and other malicious software on local government networks and threatening to disrupt the November US election.
BriteGaze, the artificial intelligence venture launched by former Liquid Telecom South Africa CEO Reshaad Sha, said on Monday that it has completed a feasibility study for the launch of BriteGaze Fund One.
The virus responsible for Covid-19 can survive for up to four weeks on surfaces including plastic banknotes and mobile phone screens, researchers have claimed.
The high court in Lesotho has granted Vodacom an interim order preventing the country’s telecommunications regulator from revoking the company’s operating licence and imposing a R134-million fine.
State-owned defence company Denel has asked for R3.8-billion in government financial support over the next three fiscal years, national treasury said on Friday.
Lesotho has written to Vodacom Group’s subsidiary in the landlocked Southern African nation, telling it that its “unified licence” to operate has been revoked. Vodacom said it will fight the decision in court.
Lesotho’s government is seeking to regulate online behaviour with a law compelling social media users to obtain an “Internet broadcasting allowance”, as unease about digital platforms grows in some African countries.
Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has announced the release of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) Commission Report for public consumption and comment.