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Altech Alcom Matomo has won a tender worth R1,2bn from the Gauteng provincial government to build a province-wide fibre-optic broadband network over the next five years. Alcom Matomo, a subsidiary of technology and telecommunications group Altech, will be responsible for

Gauteng’s department of finance has canned the controversy-ridden Gauteng Online project meant to provide connectivity and computing to the province’s schools. Instead, it has issued a new tender for what it calls “e-learning solutions”, in terms of which suppliers will provide 80 000 tablets to 1 600 schools in the province

The new tender for the controversial project was cancelled three days before the finalisation of a major tender to install Internet-connected computer labs in the province’s public schools. At a media conference on Tuesday, Gauteng finance minister Mandla Nkomfe said the department had decided to review