Cabinet has approved a package to close the funding gap at Eskom, the national treasury said on Sunday. The package, approved at a special cabinet meeting in Cape Town on Thursday, would guarantee energy security and support gross domestic product growth, spokesman
Cell C’s leadership team must feel like it’s on a roller coaster ride it can’t get off. One moment it’s shrieking in delight as its regulator, Icasa, gives it a significant price advantage over its bigger rivals; the next it’s crying out
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Grand plans for the revamped government communications portfolio have been a bitter disappointment, with the minister of the newly created portfolio, Faith Muthambi, having in effect been sidelined after a disastrous first three months in office. She struggles to speak in public
It’s all Apple in the latest episode of TalkCentral. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the big keynote, ask whether Apple was right to introduce bigger-screen iPhones, and look at the company’s new Watch
On 9 September, U2 released their new album, Songs of Innocence, but not quite in the normal style: they are offering it as a free download to all 500m iTunes users. Lead singer Bono described the release as “kind of mind blowing”. He said: “The most personal album we’ve
Communications regulator Icasa has set aside the first three days of October for public hearings into the state of competition in South Africa’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The hearings are part of the regulator’s high-level inquiry into the subject, announced
Wireless Internet service provider iBurst has launched BusinessLink, a symmetrical wireless broadband offering aimed at business users. Delivering speeds of…
South African electronics developer iKubu has developed a radar for cyclists aimed at keeping them safe on the road by detecting vehicles that approach them from the rear. The project, which is funded by a crowdsourcing campaign on Dragon Innovation, will be available by December
Apple’s September 2014 keynote was highly anticipated and #applelive supplanted #indyref, #Ukraine and #ISIS from the Twitter trending leaderboard. A huge part of the hype surrounding it was Tim Cook’s announcement that Apple would be launching an entirely new gizmo
