SA will insist a decision be taken on a site for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope at the next meeting of the SKA organisation, science & technology minister Naledi Pandor said on Tuesday. “I’ll certainly protest should we not
A planned deal between Telkom and Korean telecommunications company KT Corp may benefit employees, trade union Solidarity said on Tuesday. “In Korea, KT focuses on creating a flexible working environment for its employees through flexitime, flexi workplaces and ‘virtual
Last Friday, TechCentral’s Craig Wilson travelled to Yzerfontein, the site of the West African Cable System landing station in SA. He took these pictures
Roads agency Sanral will not appeal against the temporary court order halting e-tolling, it was reported on Tuesday. This has emerged from a letter from Sanral’s lawyers, Beeld newspaper reported. Pieter Conradie, lawyer for the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance, said on
JSE-listed IT services company Gijima has warned it’s going to have to cut jobs to reduce its payroll costs by between 8% and 12%. As part of what it calls an “internal people optimisation strategy”, Gijima plans to “streamline” its operations and restructure its
The West African Cable System (Wacs), the highest-capacity undersea telecommunications cable to land in SA to date, will eventually offer countries along its route, including SA, up to 5,1Tbit/s of capacity into Europe. With 14 entities involved in
What company would ask its customers to buy less of its product and, at the same time, promptly increase prices? That dubious distinction goes to Eskom. The parastatal has increased its prices to improve the supply and distribution of electricity, yet pays
Absa has withdrawn the notices of retrenchment given to its IT employees, finance union Sasbo said on Monday. “In a letter to Sasbo, the bank advised it would withdraw the notices of retrenchment sent to IT staff today [Monday],” Sasbo assistant general
Ericsson SA-led company BWired has spent the past two years building a metropolitan fibre-optic network to connect Johannesburg’s municipal buildings. There’s a year of the project left, but after that it can begin offering commercial services, and these
Trade & industry minister Rob Davies has defended his department’s decision not to renew the contract of the head of the National Consumer Commission (NCC). “I didn’t know this person from a bar of soap myself,” Davies said of the appointment