Most South Africans are oblivious to the fact that we are in the worst grip of a crisis that has major negative implications for every one of us both now and in the future. People are ignorant of the electricity crisis because “the lights are still on”. But the lights will not stay on. Eskom’s daily message to us all is to use less electricity
Eskom’s application for tariff increases was ready to be submitted, before government asked it to look at additional factors, the parastatal said on Wednesday. “We were ready, it was 100% in line with regulation. We engaged since February with hundreds and hundreds of stakeholders,” Eskom finance director Paul O’ Flaherty said
The days of watching YouTube videos buffer, even high-definition ones, may soon be over — for some consumers, anyway. Telkom this week launched the commercial trial of its new 20Mbit/s and 40Mbit/s digital subscriber line services. These speeds are far greater than anything offered by the fixed-line operator to date and
The black economic empowerment (BEE) companies established by DStv owner MultiChoice are being paid ordinary and special dividends to the tune of R1bn in the current financial year, the pay-TV broadcaster said on Wednesday. The empowerment
Dimension Data Middle East & Africa chairman Andile Ngcaba is reinvesting all of his proceeds from the black economic empowerment (BEE) deal he struck with the company in 2004 now that it has vested. The total value of the transaction
The share price of JSE-listed technology group Gijima soared by more than 12% on Wednesday morning after it told shareholders it was in talks to dispose of its mining and consulting businesses, housed under the MineRP division, to a consortium led by RMB Private Equity subsidiary RMB Corvest
Telkom plans to expand into a range of new value-added product areas in an effort to offset the declining margins in its traditional business of providing bandwidth and connectivity. At the same time, it is making progress with its plans to offer
Local-loop unbundling, the regulatory intervention whereby third parties get access to Telkom’s physical infrastructure, is often regarded as the best solution for reducing broadband prices and growing penetration. But one Internet service provider has
Touch-screen smartphones, once an expensive rarity, now generate tens of billions of dollars of revenue every year. And Apple, a pioneer in this market, is bent on ensuring its rivals don’t profit from its original ideas. Apple’s first big case has just born
In what was clearly a very carefully worded speech delivered at the annual Satnac conference on Monday, Telkom Group CEO Nombulelo Moholi hinted there could be a solution to delivering broadband to all South Africans on a “sustainable basis” for the
