If you’ve ever tasted a really hot chilli, you’ll know just how potent the effects can be. The burning heat sensation on the lips, on the tongue – and if you are not careful, on other more sensitive areas, such as the eyes – can be severe and last for a painfully

Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout has poked fun at the ongoing censorship controversy at the SABC, congratulating the broadcaster’s Hlaudi Motsoeneng for keeping the news “nice and comfortable”. “No one quite knows what is going on; so what

The SABC on Sunday refused to confirm the veracity of a union report that the disciplinary hearings of suspended news journalists have been suspended – some indefinitely. “We do not comment on

Standard Bank has no plans, at least for the foreseeable future, to launch a mobile virtual network operator. The banking group’s chief executive for personal and business banking

The SABC staggers from one crisis to the next. It has been politically contested from apartheid days, used by ruling parties as a valuable propaganda tool since its formation in 1936. The broadcaster has been extremely contentious in recent years

South Africa’s state-owned power utility may ask the nation’s energy regulator for permission to raise prices more than allowed so it can recoup more than R40bn of non-budgeted expenses incurred over two years, an analyst at Rand Merchant Bank said.

A recent supreme court of appeal decision that pitted e.tv and others against MultiChoice and the SABC on the issue of the digital migration and the specifications of set-top boxes – itself a reversal of a high court decision – is now heading to the constitutional

The South African Reserve Bank has approved the Post Office’s first-level application for a banking licence for Postbank. The awarding of the licence means that the Postbank is closer to offering more than just savings accounts as it will

Strike action at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has stretched to a fifth day. Workers are demanding that they receive pay rises and bonuses back-dated to 2014 and a reversal or human resource policies, such a performance

The 16,9m people receiving welfare payments from South Africa’s government into bank accounts should have the right to choose between financial services companies, according to the country’s central bank. A contract awarded by the South