Traditional teaching should happen in conjunction with technology solutions that benefit the process of learning and teaching rather than trying to replace it, says an expert. “I don’t believe that e-learning is the silver bullet. It is only a tool – albeit a powerful one. A
Executives at Telkom are taking home higher pay, while its lower level employees face job cuts and possible salary freezes. For the financial year to 31 March 2015, CEO Sipho Maseko’s total remuneration jumped to R12,3m from R11,7m in 2014, according to
Just when everyone thought the price war among Internet service providers had petered out, MWeb, one of South Africa’s largest service providers, has chopped the price of five of its capped broadband ADSL products and nine of its fibre-to-the-home
Vodacom chief financial officer Ivan Dittrich has resigned, three years after leaving technology group Datatec to take on the role. He will leave the mobile telecommunications group at the end of July and will be succeeded by Till Streichert from 1 August. Streichert
Radically improving MTN’s customer service, aggressively growing the company’s top line – in part by taking market share from bigger rival Vodacom – expanding into business services, and building
Business reporting has always been one of the most global forms of journalism, with economic and business news leaping continents in a globalised economy dominated by multinational countries. But
Media24 CEO Esmare Weideman has apologised for Naspers’s role in apartheid. “We acknowledge complicity in a morally indefensible political regime and the hurtful way in which this played out in our newsrooms
Despite union objections, Telkom has announced it is extending voluntary severance and early retirement packages to all employees, including those that belong to trade unions. The decision to offer packages to all staff, included unionised
Load shedding and spiralling electricity prices are now part of South African daily life. What, then, can be done about it? If one were to take a long view, one could confidently say that our electricity
One of the largest LAN party videogame conventions, Quakecon returns for its 19th meet since 1996, with more than 9 000 people attending to “frag” each other playing the renowned first-person shooter. Recently, an estimated 130 000 fans attended Comic-Con in
