Having an e-tag is optional and road users have not been stopped by police for not having one, the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) said on Monday. “Sanral is not working with the Johannesburg metro police department to check whether road

Henry Ferreira
Henry Ferreira

Listed technology distributor Pinnacle Holdings has named IT industry veteran Henry Ferreira as an executive director on its board. Ferreira, 61, has been appointed to “enhance the capacity of the board and also assist in managing the future growth of Pinnacle”, the company said in a statement to shareholders on Monday. He will take

Cell C this week signalled it will not back down an inch as the price war between South Africa’s mobile operators intensifies. The mobile operator, South Africa’s third largest after Vodacom and MTN, upped the stakes with its bigger rivals by cutting its prepaid rate from 99c to 66c/minute (billed per second) on a promotional basis

In the 2014 reboot of Godzilla, the venerable giant lizard battles mutos (or Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms) while the script’s somber tone wages war with the ridiculousness of its underlying premise. In both clashes, the human characters seem to be there mostly as spectators who run, scream and open their eyes in widened terror

As I step into a rather ordinary looking building in the drab Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia, I get the sense there is a buzz in the air, even though there’s no one about as I walk past an unmanned reception desk. Stuck on the desk is a handwritten note instructing interns to head upstairs. That’s where Gareth Cliff, until recently the host

Come join us as your hosts, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg, tackle another week’s technology news in the TalkCentral podcast. In the show this week, they chat about Cell C’s move to cut headline prepaid rates to 66c/minute and what that means for the company and for the industry. Also in the podcast this week are

MTN plans to spend US$3bn (about R31bn) on its network in Nigeria over the next three years to improve quality of service. The company has previously had quality problems with its network in the West African country. According to website BDlive, the Nigerian Communications Commission banned MTN and two other mobile operators

South African technology firms and other companies can now transfer intellectual property (IP) offshore thanks to a relaxation of exchange control regulations in this regard. One of challenges that private companies in South Africa have faced is their inability to tap into international venture capital markets, with the main obstacle being

Most say the same thing. They came to the US either to avoid army conscription or apartheid itself in the late 1980s. They planned to stay for just a few years, but they stayed on. A quarter century later, this small generation of South African immigrants has risen to break through, en masse, into such key leadership roles that they’re changing the US. YouTube

Eskom will know by the end of the month whether it needs to increase its electricity tariffs, it said on Thursday. In a statement, the state-owned enterprise said it was awaiting a determination from the National Energy Regulator of South Africa. It asked Nersa last year to evaluate and approve the regulatory clearing account balance for its previous