The former chairman of communications regulator Icasa, Paris Mashile, has been reappointed to the authority’s decision-making council with immediate effect. News of Mashile’s return to Icasa comes as the authority names four new councillors
Some 200 Uber drivers have picketed Uber’s Cape Town office after the company said it was cutting prices on its entry-level UberX service by up to 20% to spur demand in the winter months, it has been reported. Eyewitness News said the
South Africa’s energy crisis is fast forming a silver lining for investors on the JSE, with another company, Hulisani, listing as a special purpose acquisition vehicle on the main board
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Internet-based ride-sharing service Uber is cutting prices for its entry-level UberX service in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban by up to 20% to spur demand in the winter months, the company said on Wednesday. “During the winter months, riders tend to venture
A court case questioning the legality of the department of energy’s 9,6GW nuclear procurement programme has caused the department to delay gazetting the request for proposals, the Democratic Alliance said. However, the energy department said it
South Africa’s municipal elections will take place on 3 August, President Jacob Zuma announced on Wednesday. The move gives political parties a little less than four months to campaign
First National Bank has closed the accounts of Gupta family-controlled Oakbay Investments, prompting Oakbay to demand an explanation from FNB CEO Jacques Celliers. FNB’s decision
Gauteng-based talk radio station 702 has a new station manager. Thabisile Mbete is taking the reins from the long-serving Pheladi Gwangwa. Gwangwa, who is a lawyer by training, joined Primedia Broadcasting in 2003
If you put water on the stove and heat it up, it will at first just get hotter and hotter. You may then conclude that heating water results only in hotter water. But at some point everything changes – the water starts to boil, turning from hot liquid into steam. Physicists