Eskom interim CEO Collin Matjila has stirred controversy at the power utility over a R43m contract to sponsor The New Age’s (TNA) breakfast briefings, the Mail & Guardian reported on Friday. The new contract commits the cash-strapped power utility to sponsor around one TNA breakfast briefing
Telkom appears to be moving ahead with plans to move its head office from downtown Pretoria to its campus in Centurion, already the site of its main network operations centre and its mobile division. TechCentral first reported in June that Telkom was giving serious thought to relocating its head office to facilities closer
MTN South Africa, battered in recent years by the price war in the mobile industry, is showing signs that it could be on the mend. In the third quarter of 2014, it grew its subscriber base by 5,7% to 26,7m. That’s 1,4m net additions for the quarter. It says the growth was the result of “competitive offers
SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala on Thursday obtained an interim interdict in the Western Cape high court halting an inquiry into whether she lied about her academic qualifications. The announcement was made during a meeting of parliament’s portfolio committee on communications, which
Vodacom has completed a R1bn investment to increase the speed, capacity and range of its network in the Western Cape. The upgrade also includes the roll-out of 4G/LTE infrastructure across Cape Town. The operator says the network upgrade, which commenced in October 2012, was in
Nokia, now part of Microsoft, has been on a roll this year, announcing a number of superb new Windows Phone-based Lumia devices. Last week, the company launched its newest midrange smartphone, the Lumia 830, in South Africa. The 830 is priced comfortably below the flagship
According to TechRepublic, Google produced two of the five worst technology products of 2009 – Android 1.0 and Google Wave. The fact that Google remains dominant suggests that, while not infallible, it’s rich enough to take risks and weather occasional failures. If you are as rich as Google, it’s not extravagant to allow
SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala won’t be producing her qualifications just yet. Instead, she’s headed to the courts to stop a parliamentary process intent on suspending her, after months of evasions and requests for postponements. Tshabalala’s lawyers have lodged an interdict to stop a parliamentary inquiry
Hosken Consolidated Investments, in a surprise move late on Wednesday, announced that it had suspended its executive chairman Marcel Golding pending a disciplinary hearing into “gross misconduct”. Golding was not immediately available for
In his medium term budget policy statement, finance minister Nhlanhla Nene has allocated R620m in funding for broadcasting digital migration to the department of telecommunications and postal services and not to the department of communications
