I’m trying to figure out why I’m so disheartened with the movies this season. It’s true that the northern hemisphere summer began badly. Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was a disappointment. The aerial sequences at the

Cell C has revealed that its subscriber base had grown to 18,1m at the end of June, a 59% improvement on a year ago, as it announces plans to restructure its interest-bearing debt. The company reported a 10,5% increase in revenue over the same period, it said. The mobile operator, South Africa’s third largest

President Jacob Zuma’s daughter, Thuthukile, was appointed chief of staff at the department of telecommunications and postal services after consideration of her “capacity” for the position, the department said on Friday. “Thuthukile Zuma’s appointment … is consistent with the rules and regulations

Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko is under investigation after being implicated in an alleged car licensing cloning case, the City of Johannesburg said on Friday. “Whatever is happening in terms of allegations about him [Maseko] being on the wrong side of the law is being investigated by the Johannesburg metro police department

Mobile operator Cell C plans to restructure its debt, asking holders of its bonds for permission to extend repayment of money it’s meant to pay back to them next year by a further three years. Reuters reported on Friday that the mobile operator, South Africa’s third biggest after Vodacom and MTN, plans to restructure

It’s the weekend, which means it’s time for another episode of TalkCentral, TechCentral’s weekly podcast crammed full of technology analysis and opinion. In the show this week, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt

A stadium in Bluegumbosch, QwaQwa, in the Free State, will be renamed after SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng, The New Age reported on Friday. “It was decided unopposed by the community that the facility be named after Motsoeneng because the people felt he had done a lot of good things

President Jacob Zuma’s daughter, Thuthukile, may have made history as South Africa’s youngest head of a minister’s office. From a lowly public liaison officer to the powerful position of chief of staff within two months at the age of 25, she now earns almost a million rand a year. Her dramatic rise to the position, which

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) is reviewing the country’s content regulations for television and radio, it said on Friday. Before making the regulations final, the public would be called on to make comments about a discussion document published by Icasa, spokesman Paseka Maleka said

Cell C and MTN have chopped prepaid call rates again as South Africa’s mobile price war, which began in 2012, takes a fresh turn. Cell C announced that it is slashing its 66c/minute promotional prepaid offering to just 50c/minute