Sunshine will soon officially move from the weather report into the news bulletins at the SABC – and there will be at least 70% of it. The SABC’s acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has hit the campaign trail and is seeking the public support needed to ensure it is written into the corporation’s new
Christo van Gemert Steven Ambrose and David Greenway in a discussion that centres on South African game developer Thoopid, GTA Online, the final episode of Breaking Bad, Vodacom’s bid for Neotel, the new Samsung’s Galaxy Note and more
The Wireless Access Providers’ Association (Wapa) has come out strongly against any deal by Vodacom to buy Neotel, saying it will stifle competition, lead to job cuts and do little to reduce the “digital divide”. Earlier this week, Vodacom confirmed that it was in exclusive talks with Neotel
Conduct Telecommunications, a fibre-optic infrastructure developer backed by international private equity firm The Birchman Group, has completed a project in the Cape Town suburb of Claremont where it is providing open-access fibre to a number of businesses
It’s an old joke from the days when the so-called second national operator (SNO) was announced, oh, somewhere in the mists of time around 2003. This fixed-line competitor to Telkom was supposed to provide competition in landlines. The SNO gag appeared in countless headlines
It’s official. Mobile operator Cell C is the new title sponsor of South African rugby franchise the Sharks. The three-year year deal is effective from 1 January 2014. “This sponsorship will see the Cell C brand emblazoned on the playing kit of the Sharks
I first met Frank Heydenrych in 1994, or perhaps it was 1995, soon after I started my career, at Systems Publishers. Even back then, Frank was a larger-than-life character. I was a youngster, fresh out of journalism school, and had moved to Johannesburg after being offered a job by Systems CEO Terry Murphy. I joined
One of South Africa’s iconic rugby grounds, Johannesburg’s Ellis Park, has been given the Wi-Fi treatment. The Golden Lions Rugby Union says Ellis Park has become the “first public Wi-Fi-enabled stadium in South Africa” in time for this weekend’s test match between the Springboks
Canada is actively pursuing South African entrepreneurs through a new start-up visa programme its government has introduced to assist “qualified entrepreneurs” interested in relocating. The cities of Toronto and Waterloo – the home of embattled mobile device manufacturer BlackBerry
By early next year, South Africans will be able to buy locally designed, developed and manufactured smartphones and tablet computers built through an initiative between two independent, black-led companies, Seemahale Telecoms and CZ Electronics. Seemahale makes networking
