The effective price per minute of a call on Vodacom’s network fell to 59c/minute in the six months ended 30 September 2013, a decline of 16,9% in the past year, the mobile operator said on Monday. Despite this, prepaid average revenue per user rose by 1,4% to
Almost 4m people had submitted their tax returns by Monday morning, the SA Revenue Service (Sars) said. “At 9am, over 3,8m South Africans had already filed their 2013 income tax return with Sars,” said spokesman Adrian Lackay. He said more than 2m taxpayers
President Jacob Zuma has received and accepted the resignation of Noluthando Gosa from the board of the SABC, the presidency said on Monday. “President Zuma thanked Ms Gosa for her contribution to taking forward the work of the public broadcaster over a period of time
Investec has released a mobile application for its private clients that provides them with a secure, real-time banking and trading platform for Android and iPhone. The smartphone app gives customers a consolidated account dashboard view of their
Communications minister Yunus Carrim demonstrated in parliament this week that government may finally be dealing decisively with the impasse over digital terrestrial television that is undermining efforts to get more South Africans connected to broadband. Carrim’s remarks to
Forget the ominous title and the fact that it is directed by Alan Taylor of television’s Game of Thrones. Thor: The Dark World is about as dark as an episode of He-Man & the Masters of the Universe. The sequel to 2011’s Thor is another of those likeable but lightweight comic book films that Marvel
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City Power will continue installing smart meters across Johannesburg now that it has been cleared of allegations of corruption and fraud in the awarding of its smart meters tender, it said on Sunday. In the past eight months it had installed 153 of the new electricity
As consumers increasingly turn to WhatsApp, WeChat, BlackBerry Messenger and other free applications for instant messaging, South African operators may finally be gearing up to fight back over SMS volumes they have lost to IM players
Long-serving Datacentrix director Gary Morolo is stepping down as chairman and board member of the JSE-listed technology services company “with immediate effect”. Morolo, who joined Datacentrix 15 years ago and who served as its CEO, is leaving following news at the end of last month that the
