Year: 2012

Telkom must be fully privatised to prevent the company from being plunged into a crisis, the DA said on Monday. “Should government persist in its naive and dangerous management of Telkom we may well soon see the company come cap-in-hand to parliament

Investors sold off Telkom shares on Monday following the resignation of group CEO Nombulelo Moholi. The share price was almost 3% lower at R17,69 in late morning trade on the JSE, after briefly changing hands at as low as R17,51. Telkom

Telkom CEO Nombulelo Moholi has resigned, becoming the latest in a long string of leaders of the telecommunications group to step down in recent years. Moholi, who is credited with building a strong management team around her and leading a project to upgrade

Deputy communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams took a stand after she learnt that her department’s director-general misled Parliament. Ndabeni-Abrahams said this week that although Rosey Sekese had told the parliamentary portfolio committee on communications

Free-to-air television broadcaster e.tv has taken exception to a proposal by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) to take away a big chunk of radio frequency spectrum currently reserved for broadcasters and to reassign it for wireless broadband. The spectrum

Derek Hanekom has taken over the department of science & technology after eight years as its deputy. Where does your interest in science come from?
I found my school years easy, but I wasn’t a model pupil, for sure, and never did my homework. I gravitated towards the humanities and started with law

South Africa is one of the most improved countries in terms of mobile network performance, having shown a 50% improvement between 2011 and 2012, new research by Cisco shows. However, the country is still far behind the rest of the world when it comes to connectivity

VMK, the Congo-Brazzaville-based website design, application development and consulting company that released a 7-inch tablet computer in 2011, has now released its own smartphone, called the Elikia. The handset, which costs US$150, offers

Accounting software company Softline Pastel has launched a mobile application for its cloud-based accounting service for small businesses, Pastel My Business Online. Also, its personal financial management (PFM) service can now pull in banking data automatically and it has launched

The quality of South Africa’s maths and science education has been ranked last in a survey of 62 countries by the World Economic Forum. The report ranked South Africa 54th when it came to gross tertiary enrolment – behind India, but ahead of Morocco, Ghana, Bangladesh, Nigeria