A well-placed source gave the Mail & Guardian a blow-by-blow account of the hours before Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s permanent appointment was confirmed. The SABC board appoints the operations chief and the appointment has to be confirmed by the minister of communications. The source, speaking to the M&G

It’s a cold Johannesburg afternoon as Dave Greenway joins Brett Haggard to discuss the week’s most interesting tech news. Topics on the table include Samsung’s dwindling profits, Microsoft IP-sharing deal with Canon, the BlackBerry Z3, Hisense’s huge phablet, an IBM report that says

Brett Haggard, Adam Oxford and Charlie Fripp return after Brett’s trip to Glastonbury to speak about South African games, Microsoft South Africa, Vaio and a new social network. The topic list (in detail) consists of the .joburg, .durban and .capetown domain suffixes, the management changes

The SABC’s requirement to reply to the public protector’s report on its then acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng was unrelated to his permanent appointment, the public broadcaster said on Wednesday. “The public protector has nothing to do with this [permanent appointment of

Banking systems have not typically made for riveting conversation outside of business IT circles. Today, however, banks, including those in South Africa, are doing some of the coolest things in the technology field. Nedbank’s low-slung building at the top of Katherine Street in Sandton has been the company’s technology and operations

Public protector Thuli Madonsela on Wednesday expressed her surprise at the permanent appointment of controversial acting SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng. “I don’t know what to make of it. I was surprised when I read this morning that he has

HTC has dropped Ingram Micro as its local distributor in South Africa. The Taiwanese company has decided yet again to have a direct presence in the country, working with a fulfilment partner, Brightstar. “It is not the first time that HTC has come back into the country and there have been a

MTN has launched a concentrating solar cooling plant at its head office in Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg. The plant will be used to cool the company’s data centres. The facility generates enough electricity to power 350 average-sized homes. The plant uses a technology called Linear Fresnel

Democratic Alliance MP and spokesman on communications Gavin Davis has described the appointment of Hlaudi Motsoeneng as permanent chief operating officer of the SABC as a “dark day for democracy”. Communications minister Faith Muthambi reportedly announced on Tuesday night that the controversial

Controversial acting SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has been appointed permanently, the public broadcaster reported on Wednesday. Communications minister Faith Muthambi made the announcement on Tuesday night in Pretoria, according to SABC radio news. Muthambi said she made the