A raging Highveld thunderstorm serves as the dramatic backdrop to this week’s episode of TalkCentral, the business technology podcast brought to you by the editors at TechCentral

SA big four bank Absa says its website downtime between 10pm and 12:30 am on Thursday night was scheduled. Customers that tried to log on last night were met with the default installation

Brett Haggard takes the reins this week and is joined by Ben Kelly, Candice Jones and Steven Ambrose. They discuss Telkom’s new group CEO, i3 Africa’s fibre-to-the-home plans, the new Microsoft, and much more

Expanding broadband, especially in the consumer market, will be one of the key focus areas of newly appointed Telkom Group CEO Nombulelo “Pinky” Moholi, who takes the reins at the

Communications minister Roy Padayachie says Nombulelo “Pinky” Moholi, the new group CEO of Telkom, will bring “the required stability at the leadership level of the fixed line operator” and help turn the business around

JSE-listed Reunert’s acquisition of ECN Telecoms will be good for both companies and for the industry, says ECN CEO John Holdsworth. Reunert announced the deal on Monday, confirming speculation

Outgoing Telkom acting group CEO Jeffrey Hedberg has agreed to stay on at the group in an advisory capacity until its annual results presentation in June. The follows news of Nombulelo “Pinky” Moholi’s

Logicalis, the IT services arm of JSE-listed technology multinational group Datatec, has acquired Inca Software from its parent Avisen in a deal worth £7,3m (R84m). Inca is the largest IBM Cognos partner in the UK

Internet service provider MWeb, which stunned the market a year ago with the introduction of SA’s first relatively affordable uncapped broadband offerings, is at it again, this time in server hosting

Telkom should know the name of its new CEO today, with the telecommunications group expected to make the formal announcement sometime in the morning. It’s widely anticipated