Finance minister Nhlanhla Nene has announced a new government procurement website and other measures aimed at making it more efficient for the state to procure good and services. In his medium-term
Finance minister Nhlanhla Nene plans to shift R1bn for the roll-out of broadband infrastructure and broadcast digital migration. This is according to government’s medium term budget policy
The department of home affairs says it has noted with concern media reports alleging that minister Malusi Gigaba had intentionally misled the nation by implying that no fraud or corruption had been
Sentech’s board has appointed Mlamli Booi as the new permanent CEO of the state-owned broadcasting signal distributor. He replaces Setumo Mohapi, who left to take the reins at the State IT Agency in April. As CEO, Booi’s biggest duty will be completing
The cash-strapped South African Post Office will struggle to pay its staff their salaries this month. This is according to a written response on 16 October by the Post Office to the Communication Workers Union, the South African Postal Workers Union
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa this week tabled its 2015 annual report to parliament. It paints a bleak picture of the authority’s performance during the past financial period. The organisation is sitting at a desolate performance rate of 29%
A lack of management accountability is the root cause for wasteful and irregular expenditure at the SABC and communications regulator Icasa, the auditor-general has said. The AG’s report to the parliamentary portfolio committee on communications
The art of futurology — predicting what future society might look like — is plagued with difficulties. Books, films, TV shows and plays that feature such efforts are all judged through the prism of hindsight. The 1989 film Back To The Future Part II saw its
In mid-July 2009, in a twist of irony, online retailer Amazon unilaterally removed digital copies of George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 from a number of Kindle e-readers. Customers were outraged. If it wasn’t for the fact that it really happened, it would surely
National treasury has allocated R200m to the department of energy for preparatory work to consider the costs, benefits and risks of building four more nuclear power stations in South Africa, it