Communications minister Faith Muthambi has launched a scathing attack on South African media companies and journalists, accusing them of having an agenda against the ruling ANC. She told

Pharmaceutical companies typically develop new drugs with thousands of staff and budgets that run into the billions of dollars. One estimate puts the cost of bringing a new drug to market at US$2,6bn

The City of Tshwane approved a broadband project that will bind it for 18 years through a build, operate and transfer (BOT) contract to a newly formed company, of which 41% of its shareholding is

By 2020, mobile data traffic will grow nine-fold in South Africa, according to new research. The 10th annual Cisco Visual Networking Index mobile forecast predicts that mobile data

MTN South Africa on Thursday experienced widespread downtime, preventing many of its customers from accessing the Internet. The problems started at about 2pm, the mobile operator said

A fire at the Cape Town Film Studios early on Thursday morning destroyed a ship which formed part of the TV series Black Sails. Firefighters responded to the blaze at 12.40am and extinguished it

A former councillor at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has lashed out at South Africa’s Sim card registration legislation, Rica, saying it has severely impacted ordinary

Online business publication Moneyweb’s claim that Fin24 committed “systematic plagiarism on an industrial scale” is extravagant, the high court in Johannesburg has ruled. Judge Daniel Berger on Thursday handed down judgment in

The high court in Johannesburg has found that Fin24 infringed the copyright of one Moneyweb article in 2013, after copying and republishing a substantial part of an original article, and was ordered to pay damages to Moneyweb. Judge

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