As if hacker affiliations weren’t complicated enough, the so-called official Anonymous group of South Africa on Wednesday denied any alliance with Team GhostShell, the Internet group which on Tuesday posted just over 100 separate documents with private information from companies including Sasol

A former Eskom executive director on Wednesday shot down the energy provider’s proposal for an annual 16% electricity price hike for the next five years. Mike Deats said Eskom had failed to address some important issues in its Multi-Year Price Determination (MYPD) 3 report, which could

After a short stint at Telkom, former Samsung South Africa MD Deon Liebenberg has been appointed managing executive for Vodafone Global Enterprise (VGE) and international business at Vodacom Business. Liebenberg takes up the new position on Friday. Liebenberg also previously headed

BlackBerry 10, the cornerstone of the turnaround strategy of the company known until Wednesday as Research in Motion, has landed. And along with it are two brand new BlackBerry devices, a touch-screen model, the Z10, and a hybrid keyboard and touch version, the Q10. The Z10 is expected

“This is it. This is the moment we have all been waiting for.” With those words, Research in Motion (RIM) South African MD Alexandra Zagury kicked off the Johannesburg launch of BlackBerry 10 (BB10), the operating system that RIM hopes will help

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela will release her report on the City of Johannesburg’s electricity billing system on 31 March, her office said on Wednesday. Madonsela’s intervention followed complaints by Johannesburg residents about exorbitantly high and incorrect bills. She called on the city

South Africa needs to be saved and freed from corruption, says Team GhostShell, and luckily it has assembled a “strong force” of hacktivists equal to the task. That force will now break into government information vaults and bring to light the evidence that will reveal corruption and nefarious doings

Mobile operator Cell C will from next month give prepaid and top-up consumers, who recharge with R500 or higher, free, unlimited calls to other Cell C subscribers for 30 days from the date of recharge. The new product, called Supacharge, comes into effect on 4 February. Telkom’s mobile arm

The Democratic Alliance wants a commission of inquiry to probe funding of The New Age newspaper, party leader Helen Zille said on Wednesday. “I have today written to President Jacob Zuma to request that he appoint a judicial commission of inquiry, headed by a retired judge, to investigate the funding of The

First National Bank apparently believes that Research in Motion’s (RIM’s) new BlackBerry 10 (BB10) operating system is going to be a big success in South Africa, even if some analysts don’t. The bank, which is yet