South African Transport Workers’ Union spokesperson Abner Ramakgolo announced on Tuesday that following an agreement reached with employers, truck drivers have ended their strike and will resume work on Wednesday. The strike action that started on February 26 saw more than 30 000 truck drivers striking as a result of a snag in wage negotiations.
Marten Pieters, CEO of Africa’s third-largest mobile group, Celtel International, on Friday declined to comment on the company’s growth prospects but said the company’s initial public offering remains on track. Pieters said Celtel is not in a position to say what its prospects and expansion plans are, as this will violate pre-listing rules.
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/ 25 February 2005
NRG Gestetner South Africa, the wholly owned multinational subsidiary of NRG, has entered into a R9-million black economic empowerment (BEE) partnership with Chaka Chaka Investments — led by singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka, who will take on the role of CEO at Gestetner Tshwane.
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/ 24 February 2005
Telkom announced on Thursday that it is to reduce its ADSL prices from March 1 as part of its new broadband initiative unveiled by CEO Sizwe Nxasana. This includes the launch of HomeDSL 192 for residential customers and the commercial roll-out of the Telkom T-Zone in partnership with Wireless G.
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/ 18 February 2005
South Africa will in April play host to the ICT in Government summit, industry research house and event organisers ForgeAhead announced on Friday. The summit will be attended by various African government leaders, decision-makers and representatives of the information and communications technology industry.
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/ 14 February 2005
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) on Monday released a document on draft licence conditions for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in which the regulator stated that it wants SABC stations to increase local programming while promoting indigenous languages.
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/ 8 February 2005
The share price of media and entertainment group Primedia surged by 7,27% on Tuesday following its trading update in which the company said it expects interim headline earnings per share and earnings per share to be between 30% and 50% higher than the previous comparable period.
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/ 4 February 2005
Local internet service provider M-Web looks set to unsettle South Africa’s national fixed-line and mobile operators with its new offering, Callsaver, which enables its subscribers to make calls to international destinations at tariffs lower than cellular and landline services, it emerged on Friday.
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/ 25 January 2005
A Roodepoort man, Marcus Mocke, has been sentenced in the Johannesburg Commercial Crimes Court to eight years in jail or a fine of R400 000 for dealing in pirated DVDs, the South African Federation against Copyright (Safact) said in a statement on Tuesday. Safact said it is the harshest sentence to date received for DVD piracy.
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/ 18 January 2005
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) is set to host public hearings this week on the draft value added network service (Vans) regulations in preparation of a managed liberalisation which gets under way from February 1.