Analogue will go on as DTT deadline passes

Jun 17, 2015

The 17 June 2015 was the day laid down by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for full digital broadcasting to take over from analogue. Analogue users will no longer be protected from signal interference.
With South Africa still some way from finalising its Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) migration, there is a risk that television viewers could face broadcasting disruptions. However, Minister of Communications Faith Muthambi says that South Africa, along with other countries that are signatories to the ITU, have an agreement to facilitate the migration of broadcasting services from the analogue format to the DTT platform.

PAYE reconciliation returns deadline looms

Apr 8, 2015

South African employers have until 29 May to file their annual PAYE reconciliation returns for the 2015 tax year (1 March 2014 to 28 February 2015) if they are to avoid paying penalties to SARS. This means that you must reconcile and submit your PAYE, SDL and UIF...

3D Secure – will it work?

Mar 24, 2015

Card fraud has become as commonplace in South Africa as load-shedding and, according to the SA Banking Risk Information Centre, losses due to fraud have increased by 23% to R453,9-million. To combat this, the Payments Association of South Africa (PASA) put in a 28...

SASSA seeks extended deadline for RFP

Feb 19, 2015

The Constitutional Court has issued further directions for the SASSA (South African Social Security Agency) tender process. On 13 February, SASSA advised the court that it was not in a position file an amended draft request for proposals (RFP) for the social grant...

ConCourt issues deadline for SASSA RFP

Feb 9, 2015

The Constitutional Court has given SASSA (South African Social Security Agency) until tomorrow (10 February) to indicate whether it intends to make further amendments to a request for proposals (RFP) for the R10-billion social grant tender. If there are changes, these...