The cash-strapped, strike-hammered South African Post Office is on the brink of collapse, MPs heard on Wednesday. “The financial situation…
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Icasa chairman Stephen Mncube has downplayed the impact of a decision by communications minister Faith Muthambi to ask four of the communications regulator’s councillors to leave before they have served a customary handover period of 45 days. However, in a statement, Mncube does not address the
Desperate for your favourite international band to tour South Africa? You will soon be able to do more than just wish quietly for it to happen thanks to a new crowdsourcing platform that wants to give music fans a voice. Inbound Sound wants to give South Africans a voice about which acts
Broadband Infraco, the state-owned company created by the department of public enterprises in the mid-2000s to challenge Telkom’s then absolute monopoly in national telecommunications infrastructure, has reported a loss of R143m for the year to March 2014. This is a slight
Telkom will not withdraw notices of termination involving 105 staff members, despite a demand from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) that it do so. The termination letters were issued legitimately issued in line with the agreed upon
Communications minister Faith Muthambi has ordered that four councillors at communications regulator Icasa whose terms are ending leave the institution and not stay on for a 45-day handover period, despite the fact that
Five months after President Jacob Zuma announced he would split the department of communications in two — creating a new communications department and a telecoms and postal services department — there’s still no resolution
Vodacom, keen to get more South Africans onto its mobile broadband network, has launched a 7-inch 3G tablet that costs less than R1 000. The launch of the Smart Tab 3G comes just two months after the mobile operator launched the successful Smart Kicka, an entry-level smartphone that
SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala received a tongue-lashing from MPs on Tuesday for trying to “delay” an inquiry into whether she lied about her qualifications. Tensions rose when Tshabalala’s advocate, Norman Arendse, asked parliament’s
An unnamed company has made a firm offer to acquire Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), the parent company of iBurst and Broadlink. WBS nonexecutive director David Hilewitz on Monday confirmed that an offer has been tabled, but declined to name the acquiring party, saying