South Africa and Vietnam have discussed stepping up cooperation in communication as well as maintaining regular dialogue to share information. This emerged during a meeting between communications minister Faith Muthambi and her Vietnamese counterpart, minister of
Trade & industry deputy minister Mzwandile Masina has spoken out against the sale of counterfeit goods at flea markets and business centres, saying it contributed to the proliferation of illegal goods in the country. Masina was speaking after he
Times Media Group’s Vidi video-on-demand platform has been “struggling to gain traction in the market”, TMG parent Tiso Blackstar Group said this week. In notes alongside
BMW South Africa’s Rosslyn, Pretoria, plant will get up to 30% of its power through renewable energy from a biogas project, the German car maker announced on Friday. About 40 000 tonnes per annum of cattle manure and around 20 000 tonnes of organic waste will be fed into digesters that will produce biogas to drive
The SABC has charged its chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, with misconduct ahead of his disciplinary hearing at the end of the month. The charge sheet and hearing notice, which Motsoeneng signed on Monday, charged him with a number of acts of misconduct
It will take Eskom seven years to resolve all network constraints and achieve the network redundancy levels required by the South African grid code, Eskom CEO Brian Molefe said on Friday. Eskom will spend R213bn between 2016 and 2025 on strengthening and developing its
Electronic payments company Net1 UEPS Technologies faces the prospect of hanging onto South Africa’s R10bn social grants tender until 2017. This is after the state-owned South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) dismissed three new bids for the contract. In April 2014, the
The City of Cape Town is taking a cautious approach to rolling out its Wi-Fi infrastructure, despite political will to expand public access to the Internet. “There are too many examples of public Wi-Fi initiatives by other cities which have failed after the initial emporia of the launch is forgotten and the ongoing
In an effort to reduce fatal truck collisions in the province, the KwaZulu-Natal department of transport has launched a three-dimensional truck simulator — a first for South Africa. The mobile simulator, constructed in a caravan, is part of a
The argument for the use of police body cameras is gaining momentum in South Africa, amid growing demand for greater police accountability, especially in the wake of the Marikana massacre. The cameras are typically worn on the chests of police officers. Their use is becoming
