The council of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has placed its CEO, Pakamile Pongwana, on “precautionary suspension”, it said in a statement on Thursday afternoon. Pongwana, who has been CEO of the broadcasting
After more than three months of vehement denials of stirring racial tension in South Africa while working for the Gupta family, UK-based PR firm Bell Pottinger fired four employees who worked on the account. The
Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo will today meet broadcasters following the 8 June constitutional court ruling on digital migration. The meeting will be held with broadcasters SABC, e.tv, StarSat and other stakeholders
About a week ago, a rather important event happened in the Internet-of-things space. You may have missed it, perhaps because the dry technicalities of IoT is not all that appealing. Intel has quietly discontinued its three SBC boards, the Joule
The last thing you’re thinking about when putting your feet up on holiday is that you may be enjoying a break as a result of something as disparate to travel as data analytics, but, increasingly, that’s the case. Behind the scenes, in tourism
The 23-year-old who saved the world from a devastating cyberattack in May was asleep in his bed in the English seaside town of Ilfracombe last week after a night of partying when another online extortion campaign spread across the
In South Africa, membership of the quirkiest club in global central banking just lost some of its cachet. The Reserve Bank is one of a handful around the world still owned by shareholders, and that eccentric structure
More than two-and-a-half years after the fatal break-up of Virgin Galactic’s experimental rocket plane, Richard Branson is poised to revive powered test flights as the billionaire entrepreneur targets his first journey into space by the middle
Vumatel will introduce a new, 200Mbit/s fibre-to-the-home offering on 1 August, according to several Internet service providers. The company itself is not saying anything – a spokesman was unable to comment
In this episode of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to ZA Central Registry CEO Lucky Masilela about the .africa geographic top-level domain. Masilela talks about the complex, years-long process involved