SA’s job losses continue to mount

Figures from Statistics SA show that unemployment increased in the third quarter of 2015. Third quarter Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) shows that the working-age population was 36,1-million , of whom 15,8-million employed, 5,40million unemployed and 14,9-million...

ICT research council back on the table

The creation of an ICT research council in South Africa to drive integrated ICT research and development was put back on the table at the GovTech 2015 conference today. At a roundtable attended by students, academics and government ICT officers, Deputy Minister of...

NAPAfrica peering helps build businesses

Wireless ISP BreedeNet says its business providing high-speed Internet to rural areas has been boosted since it joined the 180-member-strong community at NAPAfrica, Africa’s largest Internet exchange (IXP), based at Teraco. Coert Smit, network operations...

What you need to do to make IoT succeed

Interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) is peaking as businesses seek to seize the opportunity presented by a network of uniquely identifiable, autonomously communicating endpoints (or “things”).

Wits reopens, engages on nine-point plan

Wits University resumed lectures today – despite several incidents of fires being set on campus last night – and has agree to implement a nine-point plan to get the academic programme back on track: * There will be no increase in fees for 2016. This means...
MTN hit with R71bn fine

MTN hit with R71bn fine

MTN shares fell about 12,5% yesterday afternoon on news that the pan-African telecommunications company faces a R71-billion fine from Nigerian authorities. The company’s stock continued to fall this morning. Yesterday’s trading saw 12,49% knocked off...