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/ 2 December 2005
An investment company that had former Eskom chairperson Reuel Khoza as executive chairperson benefited to the tune of R65-million after IST Holdings, a JSE-listed company in which it held a 28% stake, was awarded a R260-million contract by Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (Pty) Ltd.
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/ 2 December 2005
There is light at the end of the tunnel for South African consumers who are frustrated by excessively high broadband Internet costs and having to wait months for their service to be connected. New draft regulations published this week by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa are set to shake up broadband service delivery.
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/ 25 November 2005
When Corne Krige realised that his body was trying to tell him enough was enough, there was only one course of action. ”I have never conned a club in my life, and I wasn’t about to start now. Moreover, I didn’t want people whispering among themselves that I wasn’t the player I’d once been,” says Krige in his new autobiography.
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/ 25 November 2005
The City of Johannesburg is saving millions of rands through the use of its own high-speed wireless telecommunication network, which connects more than 500 municipal buildings. So dramatic are the cost savings that the capital costs of establishing the network have been paid in just three months.
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/ 31 October 2005
The next time you are sitting in one of Johannesburg’s regular traffic jams, look around and imagine how much quicker it would be if one in every two vehicles was not there. In the past five years, the number of cars on Gauteng’s roads has almost doubled. At the end of July this year Gauteng had almost three million registered vehicles, up from 1,6-million in 2000.
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/ 17 October 2005
Staff at the Universal Services Agency, which is charged with rolling out information communications technology access to poor communities, say that the agency unfairly backs Microsoft’s proprietary software rather than non-Â proprietary open source software.
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/ 10 October 2005
A controversial new partnership between the South African government and the world’s leading software company, Microsoft, is at the centre of a heated debate about the best way to roll out IT access to poor communities. The memorandum of understanding aims to roll out free Microsoft software and training to telecentres in all 284 municipalities over three years.
Growing anger over lack of telecommunications access is mobilising poor communities who say they have sat and waited for long enough. Earlier this month at least 400 people from around the country came together at the People’s Forum on Communication Rights hosted by the Freedom of Expression Institute.
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/ 30 September 2005
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), the country’s communications regulator, may face stiff challenges to its independence if the Icasa Amendment Bill is promulgated in its current form. This is according to a range of stakeholders in the sector.
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/ 27 September 2005
After 15 years of living in the city, Gcina Mahlatashana says his three months at the new Brickfields residential complex in Newtown has been his best inner-city-living experience yet. "In comparison to the buildings I have experienced living in, this is much better," he says, staring out across the Brickfields car park. The <i>M&G</i> investigates the various options available to those who are keen on inner-city living.