South Korea’s special prosecutor accused Jay Y Lee and other Samsung Group executives of conspiring to create fake documents to mask millions of dollars in bribes funnelled to a confidante of the nation’s president. Lee, the de facto head of
It’s been a tough few months for Uber. Already this year, it has been hit by a massive boycott followed swiftly by serious allegations of institutional sexism and sexual harassment. Now the most serious scandal in the ride-hailing
South Africa plans to bring in a new welfare payments system over the next two years and hasn’t yet signed a new interim contract with Net1 UEPS Technologies, the government said on Sunday. Cash Paymaster Services, a unit of Net1, will
President Jacob Zuma ordered the country’s social development and finance ministers to ensure that welfare payments are made to beneficiaries on 1 April, the day after a distribution contract with Net1 UEPS Technologies is due to expire. Zuma held talks
Social development minister Bathabile Dlamini said she took responsibility for the failure of the country’s welfare department to comply with a ruling by the nation’s top court. The constitutional court in 2013 said a contract between the
South Africa should consider splitting state power company Eskom into transmission and generation units to prevent it from undermining the country’s independent power producer program, the ruling ANC said. While the government has championed
President Jacob Zuma contradicted senior members of the ANC on Friday in calling for the constitution to be changed to ensure greater access to land for the nation’s black majority and indicating that the government may consider
JSE-listed IT distribution group Pinnacle Holdings, which is in the process of changing its name to Alviva Holdings (share code from PNC to AVV), said it will consider acquisitions worth as much as R1,3bn. The acquisition talks follow a strong
It’s TalkCentral time. On this week’s podcast, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about the best of Mobile World Congress 2017. What does it tell us that the most talked about gadget at this year’s show was a feature phone? Also this
Mobile World Congress, the premier wireless technology conference in Barcelona, was supposed to be a coming out party for Google’s digital assistant. But at this year’s proceedings, the artificially intelligent voice-based service