The Democratic Alliance wants former SABC chair Zandile Tshabalala, who resigned last December, to “pay back the money” she received during her 22-month tenure at the public broadcaster. “A reply to a DA parliamentary question reveals that former SABC chair

Media24’s digital division, 24.com, is launching a news wire service next month, it announced on Thursday. The new service would be called News24Wire with syndication and access being handled by Gallo Images, Media24 said in a statement. A national reporting team

MTN South Africa showed “clear evidence” of a “successful turnaround” in the second half of 2014, the mobile operator said on Wednesday, despite the operation reporting a 3,9% decline in revenue and a sharp decline in operating margins. For the year

Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa was accused of hiding behind the sub judice rule on Wednesday when he declined to answer a question in parliament on signal jamming during last month’s state of the nation address. “Hearings in relation to

The developing world will drive future growth of new smartphone connections, research released by industry body the GSMA at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in Spain this week showed. And it’s cheap, entry-level devices that will drive that uptake. So

MTN South Africa CEO Ahmad Farroukh has echoed remarks made by Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub earlier this week that there’s a need for mobile operators to cooperate to reduce costs and improve

The Film and Publication Board (FPB) has presented new draft regulations governing online content, which are meant, among other things, to crack down on child pornography and cyber bullying. But

MTN has disclosed for the first time how much it paid to acquire Afrihost, and it’s not quite as high as earlier reports suggested. The mobile operator said on Wednesday in its annual financial results that it shelled out R408m to acquire 50% (plus one share) of the Internet

The New Age newspaper has pulled out of the Press Council’s ombudsman system, the council said on Wednesday. “The New Age was one of the publications that have been using our system without being members of Print & Digital Media South Africa

Samsung lost the number one spot in the global smartphone market in the fourth quarter of 2014, displaced at the top of the pile by Apple, according to new data from Gartner. It’s the first time Samsung has dropped out of the top spot in smartphone sales volumes