Convergence Partners, the investment firm controlled by well-known ICT industry businessman Andile Ngcaba, has announced it is investing US$1m (about R15,6m) in South African technology start-up Snapt to help it in its plans to expand
Despite a supreme court of appeal judgment on Tuesday, which set aside a 2015 amendment to South Africa’s broadcasting migration policy, the communications minister, Faith Muthambi, has vowed to press on with the digital terrestrial television migration
E.tv has won the latest battle in the long-running war over digital terrestrial television in South Africa, potentially throwing the long-delayed project off-track once again. The supreme court
The SABC plans to beef up local content on its commercial television station to 80% after implementing a similar policy across its radio broadcasts. Earlier this month, the SABC announced that it would implement
Out of eight people who approached ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe’s office with alleged reports of corporate capture of the state, only one handed in a written submission. “It was
The Gupta-owned Oakbay Investments holding company has instituted disciplinary action against its employees who were critical of a letter in which management pleaded with the banks to reopen its accounts. The company is also understood to have taken
Renewed bullishness towards media and Internet giant Naspers has pushed its market capitalisation above R1 trillion for the first time. On Tuesday, Naspers’s share price jumped to a new all-time high of R2 320,73, pushing its
Imagine a company with no managers and no employees. Imagine that said company operates as a democracy, and that its shareholders vote electronically on every aspect of its operations. Sounds crazy, right? Except that such a company
The SABC’s decision not to broadcast footage of the destruction of property during news bulletins was nothing less than censorship, the South African National Editors Forum said on Monday. The announcement by the SABC that it would henceforth
The SABC’s decision to stop broadcasting images of violent protests smacks of autocracy and is deeply patronising, trade union federation Cosatu said on Monday. The broadcaster was assuming South Africans were