Communications regulator Icasa had taken more than 48 hours to hear a Democratic Alliance complaint against the SABC over the pulling of an election advertisement, DA MP James Selfe said on Monday. “The DA is extremely concerned that the 48-hour timeline set by Icasa’s regulations has been ignored in this case
Korea’s Samsung Electronics this week began selling its latest flagship handset, the highly anticipated Galaxy S5. Early reviews are already in and, although largely positive, some reviewers are asking if the insane pace of innovation in the smartphone industry in
Communications regulator Icasa has denied some prominent South Africans radio licences. Icasa refused to grant a licence to Durban-based Capital Radio 604, of which former South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni’s investment holding company would have owned 40%, according to the Sunday
South African Apple distributor Core Group has been ordered by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to withdraw an advertisement in which it claims that Apple iPads are used four times more than other tablet computers. The order followed a complaint lodged
SABC bosses were protecting their positions when they decided not to broadcast an advertisement by the Democratic Alliance, party leader Helen Zille said on Saturday. “They are terrified for their positions because he [president Jacob Zuma] deployed them,” she
Plant your foot on the carpet and you surge forward at an unexpected pace, a throaty hum emanating from the V6 upfront, air bellowing out of the exhausts out back. Learned car guys call these cars “sports sedans”, and despite the brisk acceleration, in the case of the Lexus IS350 F-Sport, there’s no turbo or supercharger
South African-headquartered technology services group Dimension Data has upped in presence in West Africa by opening an office in Ghana. The group has been operating in the West African market for the past decade, with an operation in Nigeria, it said. In addition
The Democratic Alliance on Friday accused the SABC of censoring it following a notice to pull the party’s election advert. “The DA has received notice from the SABC that it is removing the DA’s ‘Ayisafani’ television commercial from the airwaves,” spokesman Mmusi Maimane said in a statement. “This is censorship pure and simple.” The advert
The SABC’s newsrooms are in the grip of paranoia ahead of the general election with fears of eavesdropping and phone interceptions. This comes after editorial staff members were “reminded” by the co-operation’s chairperson, Ellen Zandile Tshabalala, that they should stop leaks because they were working in a national key point
Fully 19% of South African online banking users have been victims of online fraud such as 419 scams and phishing attacks, up from just 10% a year ago, a new independent research survey shows. Columinate’s 2014 “Internet Banking SITEisfaction” survey, the third it has conducted, shows, too, that the number of
