One-third of young South Africans abused

One in three young people in South Africa have experienced some form of sexual abuse during their lives, according to a new Optimus Study, the first-ever nationally representative study of child maltreatment in South Africa. The “Optimus Study: Sexual...

Governments prefer Twitter interaction

Over the past five years, Twitter has become the ultimate channel for digital diplomacy for world leaders and governments. It is the prime social network used by heads of state and government in 173 countries, representing 90% of all United Nations (UN) member states,...

How to mitigate against new cyber-risks

Three utilities companies in the Ukraine, the Israel National Electricity Authority and most recently a German nuclear power plant have suffered cyber-attacks in recent months. As energy, transportation and telecommunication companies, as well as the manufacturing...

Call for policies to drive access

The Internet Society is to call for the adoption of policies and frameworks that expand access and create greater demand for the Internet during the fourth annual Africa Internet Summit (AIS) in Gaborone, Botswana, taking place now. Urging policymakers to grasp the...

Telkom HR wins with guerrilla campaign

Telkom is taking a new view on recruitment in order to attract the best talent to the transforming business, and has recently hired eight interns through an online guerrilla marketing campaign that seeks to reward new ways of approaching business challenges. The...

Vox Telecom drives connectivity prices down

Vox Telecom confirms that it will be increasing the data allocation across all of its DSL Fat Pipe usage-based products by about 30%. The increase comes as a result of the recently announced reduction of the IPC rate from Telkom. The increase in allocated data is...