The man tasked with running South Africa’s digital migration project at the department of communications, Solly Mokoetle, says the Universal Service & Access Agency of South Africa has jumped the gun by launching a multibillion-rand tender before a final policy
In a statement released on Friday, Sentech said Setumo Mohapi is still CEO of Sentech and remains “dedicated to his current position”. The statement was in response a cabinet statement, issued in Thursday, which said that Mohapi at been appointed as the new CEO of the
Eskom’s electricity tariffs may increase by 25,3% from 1 April for its direct customers and 1 July for municipal customers if an application to the national regulator is approved. The increase has the full support of government’s war room. It is aimed at paying Eskom’s
Digital migration expert and former ministerial technical adviser Roy Kruger says the final changes to the broadcasting digital migration policy, published on Wednesday, entrench the dominance of pay-television provider MultiChoice and short-change South Africans in
Sentech CEO Setumo Mohapi has been appointed as CEO of the State IT Agency (Sita), according to a cabinet statement released on Thursday. However, in a bizarre twist, Mohapi has denied this in an SMS sent to TechCentral. Cabinet spokesman Phumla Williams
The Democratic Alliance has taken issue with government’s final revisions to the broadcasting digital migration policy, warning that the changes…
Lonehill in northern Johannesburg is set to become the next suburb to get high-speed fibre to the home, this time thanks to MTN South Africa. More than 3 000 homes in the suburb will be
A police docket has been opened into a burglary at the South African Press Association’s Pretoria office at the weekend, days before it will shut down, the agency said on Thursday. Computer motherboards
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has downgraded Eskom’s long-term credit rating to BB+ following the suspension of four of its senior officials, it said on Thursday. This had led the ratings agency to have less confidence in the company’s corporate governance arrangements
A new survey by Ipsos indicates that South Africa is on the cusp of an e-commerce boom, and that boom will be driven by mobile. About 22% of South Africa’s Internet users have shopped online, with a further 48% indicating that they intend doing so. And more
