The crippling effect of an illegal strike by postal workers is easing, the Post Office said on Tuesday, adding that it expects to clear the remainder of the backlog in undelivered mail “within a few working days”. The Post Office says the strike at its two main mail-sorting centres

A family trust controlled by Pinnacle Technology Holdings CEO Arnold Fourie has sold R33m worth of the company’s shares. Pinnacle announced on Tuesday that the Carmen Fourie Family Trust had offloaded 1,5m shares at a price of R22/share. At the end of the

The Nigerian Communications Commission has cut interconnection rates, the fees operators charge one another to carry calls between their networks, in an effort to reduce the cost of voice calls for consumers. The commission has announced new rates for incumbents, smaller players and newcomers that will decline

Seacom has restored services for most of its customers across Southern Africa and East Africa, it said on Tuesday. This comes four days after several cable systems, including Seacom’s, were cut in the Mediterranean Sea. The company, whose cable system runs from

Brett Haggard, Steven Ambrose and Liron Segev get together in ZA Tech Show’s Johannesburg studio to discuss Telkom Mobile and 8ta, the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S4, the latest news in the gaming industry, Dropbox’s acquisition of Mailbox.app, Windows Phone 8

Brett Haggard, Charlie Fripp and Steven Ambrose gather in a Cape Town hotel room prior to Samsung Africa Forum 2013 for a debate on the mobile industry and a round-up of some of the week’s top news stories. Topics discussed include the Samsung Galaxy S4

Altron and subsidiary Altech both cautioned their shareholders within moments of one another on Friday that they were in talks that could have an impact on the share prices of the two companies. The move has ignited speculation that Altron could have another go at delisting Altech, which

Telkom and the Competition Commission have dropped their separate applications to the competition appeal court related to last year’s decision by the Competition Tribunal to hand down a R449m fine on the telecommunications operator for past anticompetitive abuses. Competition Commission

Vodacom has begun offering fourth-generation (4G) mobile broadband access based on long-term evolution (LTE) technology to its prepaid customers for the first time. Until now, only contract users had access to the operator’s 4G/LTE network. 4G networks offer significantly faster download and upload

In a country where textbooks are routinely not delivered to thousands of schools, public hospitals are struggling to keep running and millions live in poverty, information and communications technology (ICT) might not seem like a priority. But the department of communications, which oversees ICT, is doing