Criminals intent on stealing from homes and offices are attempting to gain entry into premises by posing as Telkom technicians, the telecommunications operator warned on Wednesday. The evolving modus operandi of criminals is of “great concern”, managing executive Jacqui O’ Sullivan

Desperate for your favourite international band to tour South Africa? You will soon be able to do more than just wish quietly for it to happen thanks to a new crowdsourcing platform that wants to give music fans a voice. Inbound Sound wants to give South Africans a voice about which acts

Broadband Infraco, the state-owned company created by the department of public enterprises in the mid-2000s to challenge Telkom’s then absolute monopoly in national telecommunications infrastructure, has reported a loss of R143m for the year to March 2014. This is a slight

Government may be considering selling its stake in minority Vodacom as it seeks funding to rescue electricity supply utility Eskom, according to a report published on Wednesday. The report on Bloomberg, a wires agency, quotes unnamed sources as saying that government has approached financial

Most company directors, CEOs and chief financial officers in JSE-listed companies are white males, according to a South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (Saica) survey released on Wednesday. “Seventy-five percent of directorships are still held by whites

Telkom will not withdraw notices of termination involving 105 staff members, despite a demand from the Communication Workers Union (CWU) that it do so. The termination letters were issued legitimately issued in line with the agreed upon

Communications minister Faith Muthambi has ordered that four councillors at communications regulator Icasa whose terms are ending leave the institution and not stay on for a 45-day handover period, despite the fact that

Five months after President Jacob Zuma announced he would split the department of communications in two — creating a new communications department and a telecoms and postal services department — there’s still no resolution

Vodacom, keen to get more South Africans onto its mobile broadband network, has launched a 7-inch 3G tablet that costs less than R1 000. The launch of the Smart Tab 3G comes just two months after the mobile operator launched the successful Smart Kicka, an entry-level smartphone that

SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala received a tongue-lashing from MPs on Tuesday for trying to “delay” an inquiry into whether she lied about her qualifications. Tensions rose when Tshabalala’s advocate, Norman Arendse, asked parliament’s