The initial notice of the intention to toll roads in Gauteng by roads agency Sanral was “sterile” and “misleading”, the high court in Pretoria heard on Monday. Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) lawyer Mike Maritz argued that the public was not aware of what Sanral’s Gauteng Freeway

Under ordinary circumstances, Wilmot Prusent only speaks about Eskom to complain. The electricity bill for his five-bedroom home in Summerset Estate, Midrand, has escalated to R2 500 in the average month. “All they ever do is raise our rates, raise our rates,” he grumbled. Recently

If Telkom had a theme tune right now it would probably be written by hard rock band AC/DC, perhaps something from their 1976 classic album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. No, not the title track, because there is nothing cheap about Telkom, with communications minister Dina Pule’s adviser

This week’s episode sees Brett Haggard, Sam Beckbessinger and Nicolas Callegari getting together to discuss a mish-mash of productivity, consumer electronics, gaming and all-round geeky fun. Topics include the new version of Evernote, the Nokia Lumia 920, all of

This week, we introduce a shorter, sharper and much punchier podcast in TalkCentral. Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson have come up with a show that we hope you’ll find really entertaining. There is a bunch of new things we’re

When the group-buying market took off in South Africa, entrepreneurs Luke Jedeikin and his partner Mikael Hanan, decided they should look to make their fortunes elsewhere and their start-up, Citymob, started in March 2011, moved from pushing digital discount vouchers to selling carefully

The divide between emerging and developed markets in terms of smartphone penetration is set to grow wider, new research suggests. Telecommunications equipment company Ericsson expects that by 2018, almost all handsets in Western Europe and North America will be smartphones

Vodacom has launched commercial fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G/LTE) services in parts of Durban and intends to extend the network to Cape Town before the end of the year. The operator has already switched on 4G/LTE, which offers signficiantly improved connection speeds, in parts of

Attila Vitai, the newly appointed MD of Telkom’s mobile division, has arguably one of the toughest jobs in South Africa’s telecommunications industry. It’s his task to turn the country’s fourth mobile entrant into a viable and, eventually, a profitable enterprise in what has become a highly competitive

Submarine telecommunications cable developer eFive Telecoms says its US$280m SAEx system, for which construction should start in 2014, will provide international capacity to a range of coastal South African towns and cities at speeds of up to 24Tbit/s