Communications minister Faith Muthambi said in parliament on Friday that indigident households wanting a free, government-subsidised set-top box to receive digital terrestrial television

The Communication Workers Union has agreed to suspend its two-day strike action against the South African Post Office. The CWU launched a nationwide strike on Thursday to demand higher annual pay increases for workers and the

Load shedding is now a thing of the past according to President Jacob Zuma, who was addressing staff at Eskom’s Megawatt Park in Johannesburg on Friday. Zuma was flanked by a large contingent of bodyguards and tactical police during a visit

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Mobile network MTN says it has fixed a data network outage but the company hasn’t yet decided whether it will reimburse customers. MTN suffered a data network outage from 2pm on Thursday that

Cash Paymaster Services has been instructed to remove debit order facilities from South African Social Security Agency-branded cards, social development minister Bathabile

The approach that South African lawmakers take to regulating Internet businesses could make or break the growth of the country’s digital economy, a report from Fifth Era, a Silicon Valley-based

Google has been dragged over the coals by the European Union’s competition watchdog, culminating in the European Commission formally charging Google with abusing the dominant position of its

Communications minister Faith Muthambi has launched a scathing attack on South African media companies and journalists, accusing them of having an agenda against the ruling ANC. She told

Pharmaceutical companies typically develop new drugs with thousands of staff and budgets that run into the billions of dollars. One estimate puts the cost of bringing a new drug to market at US$2,6bn