Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa director Bernie Fanaroff will retire at the end of next year. Former South African Nuclear Energy Corporation CEO Rob Adam will take over as “director designate” of the project, which will

Load shedding occurred on Sunday to ensure South Africa’s power grid did not suffer a blackout, Eskom said. This followed the collapse of a coal silo, silo number 20, at the Majuba power station early Saturday afternoon, thereby severely

The leafy Johannesburg suburb of Parkhurst, one of the first in South Africa to get high-speed fibre-to-the-home broadband, now looks set to be the scene of a turf war between two competing fixed-line telecommunications providers. It’s a David vs Goliath battle that could also help decide which

The crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo experimental space plane on Friday, which killed one test pilot and severely injured another, may have wrecked the future of space tourism. “For the industry, the joyride is over,” says attorney Michael Listner

Eskom began rolling blackouts countrywide on Sunday due to a loss of capacity at its Majuba power station in Mpumalanga, it said. A crack in a coal storage silo on Saturday afternoon caused the loss of 1,8GW, it said in a statement

For many people, a smartphone is their main interface for checking e-mail, but the native mail app bundled with phones often doesn’t deliver the features that users demand. Luckily, there is no shortage of alternatives. Recently, Google unveiled an

Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Virgin Mobile, which wants to have a million active customers on its books within three…

There is a “mountain” of undelivered mail at the South African Post Office (Sapo), MPs heard on Friday. “We have a mountain of mail that is undelivered that is now quite substantial,” Post Office public affairs general manager Andrew Nongogo told members of parliament’s telecommunications and postal

Vodacom has reversed a software glitch that led to some subscribers’ phone numbers being leaked, it said on Friday. The mobile network recently ran a software update to increase security on certain opt-in services and facilities allowing customers to charge purchases to their phone bill, spokesman

In this week’s episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about MTN’s aggressive expansion plans in the enterprise IT market, including its plans to make acquisitions. Also in this week’s podcast, your