Minister in the presidency Collins Chabane is next week expected to announce the findings of the long-awaited presidential review of state-owned enterprises and speculation is mounting that communications minister Dina Pule will be the big loser in

Communications minister Dina Pule will not apologise to the Sunday Times, her department said on Friday. “For the record, minister Pule has not apologised to the Sunday Times, and has no intention to do so,” department spokesman Siyabulela Qoza said in a statement. He was responding

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It’s not much to look at — sleek, black and about the size of two decks of cards – but this little box may represent the greatest threat the television industry has faced. A large part of this threat is explained by the logo embossed discreetly on the top of the box – a stylised apple missing a single bite

Perhaps best known for its foray into ­pornography, TopTV’s anti-climax in the world of broadcasting has resulted in a little-known fact: South Africa has suffered a loss of almost R1,2bn because of this venture, which critics say it should not have flirted with in the first place. Three arms

With a potential repositioning of some of the country’s most significant parastatals in the offing, a number of ministers could lose out as key entities are placed under the ever-extending wing of public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba. Not least of these

The national council of provinces (NCOP) has proposed an amendment which would give parliament more say in the determination of toll prices. Currently, the minister of transport has sole powers to determine toll fees and toll increases. This week, the

Whatever happened to cracking open Telkom’s last mile of copper cables into homes and businesses to rival broadband operators? The industry regulator has gone silent on the issue, leaving industry players wondering whether local-loop unbundling has quietly been shelved

Shareholders in financially troubled technology services company Gijima have given the green light to its proposed rights offer, in which it’s raising R150m “to ensure compliance with all its funding covenants” and to finance its working capital requirements. Gijima announced the rights offer at the

It will take up to eight years to issue all South Africans with smart card identity documents, home affairs minister Naledi Pandor said on Thursday. The department believed that once the process was underway, it could print about 3m ID cards a year, using the government printing works, Pandor told reporters