After 15 years and several highly successful spin-offs, the incredibly popular crime drama series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is ending. And it’s doing so in style, with a two-hour special on 27 September. CSI and its franchise has achieved something unique: it has made forensics glamorous and sexy

Changes to South Africa’s competition law have widened the scope for the country’s antitrust bodies to punish anticompetitive behaviour. But implementing the changes, which were passed into law five years ago, is proving to be fraught with difficulty. The Competition Amendment Act

The ANC on Thursday issued a warning to the SABC to ensure that it paid all its executives according to the budget stipulated by the national treasury. “The SABC board should not operate outside the framework of commitments provided by the national treasury. It is our view that economic trends

In 2016, a team of engineers and adventurers will travel to the South African desert and attempt to become the first people to drive a car at a thousand miles an hour (1 609km/h). The British-made vehicle, Bloodhound SSC, is designed to smash the current world land-speed record

It was no sin for a black man to earn a decent salary, the SABC’s chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, said on Wednesday. Motsoeneng said the SABC was willing to pay any employee who added value to the company. He was speaking to reporters about his bump in salary to R3,7m

Chinese President Xi Jinping has defended China’s right to impose its own regulations on the Internet at a meeting with top US technology business leaders at Microsoft’s headquarters near Seattle, according to news reports. Apparently responding to US and Silicon Valley criticism

E.tv has filed an application for leave to appeal a judgment by the high court that went against it in the ongoing battle over whether South Africa’s digital terrestrial television signal will be encrypted or

There was nothing untoward about SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng receiving an increase of almost R1m, the public broadcaster’s CEO, Frans Matlala, said on Wednesday. Addressing the media at the SABC in Johannesburg, Matlala said it should be noted

Vodacom, MTN and Cell C will pay Altron a combined amount of about R1,5bn to take over the subscriber base of Altech Autopage Cellular. Interestingly, Altron is receiving less than Reunert did when it concluded a similar deal with the operators to sell the subscribers

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