Fienie Grobler

High crime levels dragged South Africa’s ranking down to fifth place out of 53 African countries in a report on good governance released on Monday.

The number of cellphone banking users in South Africa more than doubled in the past year, according to research released by World Wide Worx on Tuesday. "This year was a tipping point for all aspects of mobile," World Wide Worx managing director Arthur Goldstuck told reporters in Johannesburg.

SABC board chairman Eddie Funde has called for an increase in government funding and a drastic reduction in commercial funding of the public broadcaster. “It’s very unusual for the public broadcaster to be 80 percent commercially funded,” Funde told reporters on Thursday morning.

The Audit Bureau of Circulations has demanded a retraction from marketing analyst Chris Moerdyk for saying the ABC’s integrity has taken a knock in the Media24 circulation debacle.