Communications minister Dina Pule has appointed a new board for the controversy-plagued Universal Service & Access Agency of SA (Usaasa), the state-owned agency that is charged with ensuring all South Africans have access to communications

A year ago, the tech press was all aflutter about the possibility of a new bubble in the internet industry. The blogosphere hummed with dire predictions of “dot-bomb 2.0” and equally passionate rebuttals. It’s amazing how much can change in a year. The most

JSE-listed telecommunications operator Telkom has begun rolling out fixed broadband connections offering speeds of up to 40Mbit/s on a trial basis in selected areas in Gauteng, Durban and Cape Town. The pilot, which will run until

Democratic Alliance MP and shadow communications minister Marian Shinn has reiterated her call for the public protector to investigate allegations surrounding the ICT Indaba held earlier this year and alleged conflicts of interest involving

There was a time when the spacey melody of Rodriguez’s Sugar Man hung permanently in the air at university digs around SA, as much a part of the atmosphere as the curling cigarette smoke and the pungent scent of incense. More than The Rolling Stones or The Sex Pistols, Rodriguez was the soundtrack of rebellion for liberal young

When Naspers stumbled on a little-known Chinese Internet company in 2001, it could not have dreamed that a US$32m investment would account for more than 80% of the media conglomerate’s R200bn market cap now. Tencent Holdings is the largest Internet solutions provider in China and Naspers, which

A harsh spotlight is shining on Michael Hulley, Jacob Zuma’s personal lawyer and presidential legal adviser, who was responsible for the legal integrity of a social grants megatender that has turned out to be a mess. The SA Social Security Agency appointed Hulley in July last year as a “strategic adviser … to ensure

SA as the major location for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope changes the character of Africa, minister of science & technology Naledi Pandor said on Friday. “Who comes to Africa to actually do their best research? People come here to examine us, to find out

Telkom has decided it will appeal against the judgment imposed on it earlier this month by the Competition Tribunal. The tribunal found Telkom guilty of anticompetitive behaviour and stifling opposition between 1999 and 2004 and fined the company R449m. Telkom announced its attention to appeal

SA’s education system could be more successful if it invested in teaching pupils to play chess, Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov said in Johannesburg on Thursday. “Chess is a great educational tool … it helps kids to build universal skills, it is [about] mental discipline, it is logic and it is