Social development minister Bathabile Dlamini bypassed officials at the country’s welfare department and helped create a crisis that would ensure that Net1 UEPS Technologies would continue to distribute payments on behalf of the government
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International ICT company Datatec is in talks to sell a major share of subsidiary Westcon’s operations for more than US$800m. Datatec, which is listed on the JSE, with a secondary listing on London’s AIM, operates across three
Seacom said at the weekend that an outage is affecting services to some clients. The problem, on segment 15 of the Seacom submarine cable system, is located slightly west of Djibouti in the Red Sea and occurred on 8 April at about 9pm South
Vodafone Group CEO Vittorio Colao is optimistic that a breakthrough is near regarding government’s controversial ICT policy white paper, saying a “hybrid” model proposed by local mobile operators, including Vodafone
First fact-checking came to Facebook. Now it’s coming to Google. The world’s largest search engine is rolling out a new feature that places “Fact Check” tags on snippets of articles in its News results. The company had already run limited tests. On Friday, it extended the
TechCentral is ramping up its focus on podcasting, an exciting medium whose time has finally arrived in South Africa. Podcasting is an exciting new growth area for the website, and the downloads of both the TechCentral podcast
Datatec’s share price was trading almost 10% higher on Friday afternoon after the company disclosed significant looming corporate action involving major subsidiary Westcon-Comstor. The Johannesburg- and London
South African debt got dealt a second blow in a week as Fitch Ratings joined S&P Global Ratings and cut the nation’s credit assessment to junk following President Jacob Zuma’s move to fire his well-respected finance minister. Fitch
Tens of thousands of protesters marched in South Africa to demand that President Jacob Zuma resign after he fired the finance minister and reshuffled the cabinet. Marchers chanting “Zuma must go” in Pretoria walked to
Samsung Electronics has pushed out the launch of its mobile payments and digital wallet service to the third quarter of 2017. The company had said in August 2016, at the local launch of the ill-fated Galaxy Note7