A Public Service Commission probe will determine the fate of officials involved in an alleged cover-up involving former minister Dina Pule, communications minister Yunus Carrim said on Tuesday. Replying in writing to a parliamentary question from Congress of the
Pick n Pay has grown online sales by 24% in the past year, the JSE-listed retailer said on Monday in notes accompanying its interim financial results for the half-year period ended 1 September. At the same time, the retailer has reported a 15,8% growth
More trouble has rocked TopTV parent On Digital Media (ODM), still the only direct-to-home pay-television rival to MultiChoice and its DStv service. Two disgruntled ODM shareholders have taken the company and its business rescue practitioner, Peter van den Steen, to the high court in an effort
All government computers need anti-pornography software installed on them, the African Christian Democratic Party said on Tuesday. “All government computers, whether desktops or laptops, should be fitted with software that prevents online gambling and pornography use,” ACDP Gauteng leader Lydia
Paris-based call centre operator The Webhelp Group says it plans to hire a thousand people in South Africa in the next 12 months as it makes its first big investment in the country. The investment will include the opening of a 7 500sq m call centre facility in Cape Town and a similar
The department of communications is to host a full-day workshop this Friday, 25 October, to debate South Africa’s national broadband policy. Interested parties have been invited to attend the meeting, which will take place in Pretoria. The plan, according to the
A South African-developed game, Snailboy, has become one of the top games on Apple’s App Store within weeks of its release. The game was published three weeks ago on the US App Store and has since claimed a spot in the top 20 best new games category. The company behind Snailboy
Telkom has named one of the country’s top chief information officers, Len de Villiers, as its new CIO. De Villiers is a former CIO for both Nedbank and Absa.
De Villiers takes on the role on 1 November. He has 25 years’ experience in the IT industry having start in IT
The most remarkable thing about Gravity, the new film from director Alfonso Cuarón, is how quiet it is for long stretches of its running time. Minutes go by where the only sounds you hear are radio chatter between its stranded astronauts and Houston – space is a vacuum, after all – and perhaps a few ominous
Kagiso Media, the fast-growing media group that has radio and Internet assets and which is bidding for a pay-television licence, has launched its first TV venture, a free-to-air channel called Glow TV on the OpenView HD satellite bouquet. OpenView HD is a new free-to-air direct
