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The high court in Pretoria on Friday rejected a bid by the Post Office to have its bank accounts released, part of a battle by a cellphone service provider to recover R50m. “The court ruled that

South Africa’s failing Post Office has lurched from crisis to crisis in recent years – and there appears to be no end in sight to the malaise. A much-vaunted turnaround strategy, which was supposed to be

Online marketplace and auction website Bidorbuy says last year’s prolonged postal sector strike had a big impact on small business owners, who found it difficult to compete with larger retailers and are concerned that the uncertainty of reliable delivery could mean

The South African Post Office’s annual rates increase has occurred without much publicity both through the media and at Post Office branches around South Africa. The increases took effect on 1 April, with most basic postal services increasing by

Yunus Carrim’s appointment as minister of communications in July 2013 was greeted with apprehension. The avowed communist’s expertise lay with the local government sector. He knew nothing about technology. In fact, he joked at the time that he barely knew

The Post Office dismissed six employees who violated a court order during the illegal strike that crippled postal operations in the last quarter of 2014, it said on Wednesday. The dismissal follows an internal disciplinary hearing which resulted from a conviction

Government should make better use of regulatory tools and legislation to foster a more competitive environment in South Africa’s pay-television industry rather than requiring that conditional access technology be included in state-subsidised set-top boxes. That’s the

Digital migration expert and former ministerial technical adviser Roy Kruger says the final changes to the broadcasting digital migration policy, published on Wednesday, entrench the dominance of pay-television provider MultiChoice and short-change South Africans in

The final broadcast digital migration policy will be published in the Government Gazette next week, the communications department said on Monday. “The new policy seeks to clarify the use of a control system