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Wed, March 20th, 09:59 · Brandon Gregory

Botswana Japanese DTT standard criticised

The Southern African Digital Broadcasting Association (Sadiba) has criticised Botswana for choosing a Japanese digital television standard over the more commonly practiced European one. → Read more
Wed, March 20th, 08:31 · Gabriella Mulligan

Government intervention required for rural broadband

The government must take steps to improve the broadband connectivity of schools, medical establishments and rural businesses, according to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). → Read more
Wed, March 20th, 08:03 · Gabriella Mulligan

Network operators must focus on building broadband backbone across South Africa

Network operators in South Africa must stop focusing solely on Gauteng, the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, as impending national developments require improved broadband access in other parts of the country, according to FibreCo. → Read more
Wed, March 20th, 07:42 · Vincent Matinde

Face Technologies denies supplying faulty voter kits in Kenya

South African firm Face Technologies has denied it supplied faulty biometric kits for the elections in Kenya. → Read more
Wed, March 20th, 05:36 · Richard Cutcher

Interim board in place at SABC, political outcry

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has an interim board of five, but opposition parties have rallied against the government’s processes. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 16:09 · Nanine Steenkamp

Heavy Chef digital marketing workshop opens to SA individuals

Digital marketing project The Heavy Chef is to present a new two day course on strategies, analysis and other related topics in Cape Town and Johannesburg within the next two months - a first time for individuals. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 15:59 · Brandon Gregory

SKA to search for extraterrestrial life

Bernie Fanaroff, project director of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, said the SKA project will be looking for intelligent life on other planets and organic molecules. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 15:45 · Gabriella Mulligan

Education, health, key targets in DoC’s new broadband policy

The Department of Communications (DoC) intends its revised Broadband Policy to target connectivity for schools and the health sector, as well as digitising government, according to a DoC official. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 15:28 · Brandon Gregory

Zuma: BRICS will contribute to youth development

The South African president Jacob Zuma said yesterday the BRICS summit in Durban will contribute towards youth development in the country. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 14:39 · Richard Cutcher

Seed Engine already on the look out for next round of startups

Startups are being encouraged to apply for the next round of places at Johannesburg accelerator Seed Engine, as it takes stock more than six weeks into its first full programme. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 14:20 · Brandon Gregory

SABC board officially dissolved, Pule hits back

The decision to officially dissolve the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) board has finally been reached following a heated meeting of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications (PCC) today. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 13:17 · Brandon Gregory

SABC board names Dina Pule as the reason for resignations

The former board members at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) have blamed Dina Pule, communications minister, for the reason behind their resignations, saying she does not know where her powers begin and end. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 13:02 · Tom Jackson

SA broadband provision “inadequate”, ignores consumer – Goldstuck

World Wide Worx chief executive officer Arthur Goldstuck says broadband provision in South Africa is inadequate and operators need to listen more to their consumers. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 12:41 · Gabriella Mulligan

South African communications needs at least 25 players, not two

Competition must increase in the South African telecoms sector in order to bring down the price of communications, says John Holdsworth, chief executive officer (CEO) of AppChat. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 11:27 · Nanine Steenkamp

ICASA approval of TopTV will be ‘unconstitutional’, says pastor

A pastor from Shofar Christian Church in Standerton has challenged the TopTV chief executive on his ‘legal’ arguments for the activation of the pornographic channels as the boycott threat intensifies. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 10:46 · Gabriella Mulligan

DoC: Radio frequency spectrum a critical input for broadband

The Department of Communications (DoC) will support the use of radio frequencies for South African broadband expansion, according to a DoC official. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 10:13 · Richard Cutcher

Telkom Mobile launched

Telkom Mobile has been unveiled and is targeting South Africa’s “heavy and high-end users” on a “faster, top quality network”. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 09:37 · Tom Jackson

Digital TV can bridge digital divide

Migration to digital television can help bridge the digital divide through increasing the access to information, according to the managing director of SoftArc Technologies. → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 09:27 · Brandon Gregory

COPE: Dina Pule contributed to SABC woes

Juli Killian, a member of parliament (MP) for Congress of the People (COPE), has accused Dina Pule, communications minister, of contributing to the problems currently plaguing the South African Broadcasting Commission (SABC). → Read more
Tue, March 19th, 09:22 · Nanine Steenkamp

Rape survivor pleads for TopTV opposition

Hettie Britzz, wife of famous South African gospel singer Louis Britzz and a survivor of rape, has appealed to the public on Facebook to join the boycott against pornographic channel TopTV as the broadcast plans of three channels are contested. → Read more