Both the home affairs department and visa application service company VFS have denied any links to President Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane, and Rajesh Gupta following claims made by the Democratic Alliance last week. The department’s
Imagine downloading 5 000 movies per second over your Internet connection. Those are the ultimate speeds being promised by a new, multibillion-rand submarine cable system that is to be built to connect South Africa and East Africa to Asia and
The death of Prince marks the end of a brilliant music career by one of pop music’s most talented and eclectic artists. A virtuoso on any number of instruments, a master arranger and producer, and a preeminent showman, Prince’s music was as
In this edition of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about the new Africa-1 cable system and Vumatel raising more funding. Also this week, they discuss MTN’s ongoing Nigerian headache and
Local telecommunications companies could regret spending around R1bn each on a new African broadband cable if the project goes ahead, says an expert. On Monday, Hong Kong ICT firm PCCW said Telkom, MTN, Saudi
Former Democratic Alliance MP Dene Smuts has died, the party’s federal executive said on Friday morning. “Dene Smuts will be remembered as a truly great parliamentarian, who stood unswervingly for a cause far bigger than her own personal advancement
South African-headquartered technology services group Dimension Data and US-based computer networking giant Cisco have announced a technology initiative that they hope will have a dramatic
Romeo Kumalo, the former head of Vodacom’s international operations, is part of a black economic empowerment group bidding to acquire a stake in the mobile operator from the Public Investment
Award-winning palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger, who announced the discovery of Homo naledi last year, has been named in Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Berger who, works out of the Evolutionary Studies
Cabinet has welcomed the official launch of the eChannel pilot project of the department of home affairs, which makes ID applications simpler through technology. The project was launched by President Jacob Zuma earlier this month. The new