The Post Office dismissed six employees who violated a court order during the illegal strike that crippled postal operations in the last quarter of 2014, it said on Wednesday. The dismissal follows an internal disciplinary hearing which resulted from a conviction
The SABC is set to spend R100m more on staff salaries and paying board members. This is according to the public broadcaster’s new corporate plan for 2015/2016 to 2017/2018, which also says revenues are “constrained” amid advertisers cutting back “as a result of
Communications minister Faith Muthambi said in a statement on Wednesday morning that government has decided to abandon South Africa’s digital migration project. This follows years of wrangling over the switchover from analogue to digital television
Telkom says its discussions with the Communication Workers Union over voluntary severance and early retirement packages — known as VSPs and VERPs — have deadlocked, allowing the company to go ahead with the offers to affected employees. However
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Deputy minister in the presidency Buti Manamela has launched a Mxit application called Isago to promote government’s national youth policy, which is currently in development. The app allows youngsters to give their views on the future of the country. Isago means “my
JSE-listed Richemont has announced it will merge its high-fashion online retail business Net-A-Porter with Italy’s Yoox, a global Internet retailer for fashion brands that owns websites such as yoox.com
Eskom chairman Zola Tsotsi has resigned, the electricity provider confirmed on Tuesday. “It happened overnight following a presentation he gave to the board,” said spokesman Khulu Phasiwe. “He then told them that in the interest of the company and the country, he felt it
If you’re wondering why you seem to be wasting your life sitting in traffic, TomTom’s Traffic Index has the answer. And while Cape Town and Johannesburg lead the way in South Africa, our cities are thankfully some way behind the world’s worst jams. The most congested traffic
After almost 77 years of providing constant news coverage, the South African Press Association has turned off the lights. The announcement in late February that the country’s only independent news wire service was closing shop left many saddened, shocked and
