Eskom denied on Tuesday morning that “load shedding” has started, according to an interview broadcast on radio station SAfm. According to radio reports, there were power cuts on Monday evening in Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg, Greymont
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth has taken the South African government to court to have the country’s exchange control system declared unconstitutional. Shuttleworth also wants the high court in
A year after having its offer to buy 20% of Telkom spurned by the South African government, Korea’s KT Corp has agreed to pour US$140m into building a national fourth-generation (4G) mobile network in Rwanda that will serve 95% of that country’s population. The Rwandan
Despite facing allegations that he defrauded the Land Bank to the tune of R6m, Rubben Mohlaloga cannot be prevented from taking up a position as one of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (Icasa’s) nine councillors. “There are
It’s not often that unboxing a new phone or tablet gets our pulses racing. It happened with the original iPhone and again with the iPad, and later with the HTC One X and the Samsung Galaxy S3. Now, a new 10,1-inch tablet computer from Sony, the Xperia Tablet Z, has elicited a similar must-have-it response
MTN has scrapped its two uncapped data packages and introduced new data price plans. The operator says it stopped allowing new connections on its “Uncapped Lite” and “Uncapped Pro” plans from 1 June. Existing subscribers to these packages will, however, have the offers honoured until their
South Africa appears to be losing its status as the preferred investment destination on the continent for international technology companies. That honour, increasingly, is going to Kenya, which may be on the cusp of a technology-fuelled era of economic growth. When apartheid ended in
In this week’s episode of TalkCentral, your regular hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson take a look at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s war on the cost to communicate and the Internet Service Providers’ Association high court victory against spammers. Also this week
This week’s show sees Brett Haggard and Adam Oxford joined by Dave Greenway, who was lucky enough to visit Computex in Taipei where he checked out all of the hottest happenings on the show floor. Topics in the episode include Dave’s reportback from Computex, the South African Wii U
The largest of the current online platforms, both on mobile and PC, is iRoking – part of iRoko Partners, which also runs a Nollywood film platform in parallel. It received investment from US private equity fund Tiger Global and has been expanding its reach and recently opened a South African office