The best thing about Zandile Tshabalala’s resignation as SABC chair this week, staffers say, is that they will go into festive season parties less likely to be the butt of all jokes. “It’s a bit funny the first time you stand around the braai and people demand to see your matric certificate,” a
It was another busy year in South Africa’s technology industry. From the drama at the SABC to the drama over the splitting of the department of communications, it’s been an interesting news year, but a frustrating one for the sector. We know what our favourite stories were in 2014
UK videogames industry body Tiga has called for the products to be treated like other creative industries such as television or film, rather than mere “software”. There is a good argument for this. Games have been part of human civilisation for thousands of years. Egyptians played the board game
The Democratic Alliance on Wednesday welcomed SABC board chair Zandile Tshabalala’s resignation. “Tshabalala’s resignation is also an elegant solution for President Jacob Zuma who was under pressure to suspend her
SABC board chair Zandile Tshabalala has resigned with immediate effect, the presidency said on Wednesday. Spokesman Mac Maharaj said President Jacob Zuma received and accepted her resignation as board member
Who says cinema is dead? From intimate indie dramas to massive blockbusters, from slick thrillers to futuristic romances, and from downbeat dystopias to nostalgic remembrances of the past, the best feature films of 2014 showed that the movies are as vibrant and alive as ever. Here’s our pick
Senzo Meyiwa, Oscar Pistorius and Ebola topped the list of top trending searches on Google in South Africa in 2014,…
PC sales in Africa and the Middle East will decline by 2% in 2014, with sales remaining flat to slightly negative for the next five years, according to new research by International Data Corp. This is despite a positive third quarter in 2014, when the market expanded by 2,1% in volume terms year on year to
Four Eskom generators, that had stopped working at three power stations, were functional again on Wednesday morning, an official said. “As we speak now this morning, we have recovered those units,” acting spokesman Khulu Phasiwe said. “The system is no longer as tight as it was. We have relatively
Fast-growing African-focused tower operator IHS Holding has won another deal to operate towers on behalf of a mobile operator, this time involving 1 100 sites from Bharti Airtel in Zambia and Rwanda. The latest deal expands IHS’s tower footprint in Africa to 21 000. Operators typically sell
