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Raid: South African Police Service members patrol the streets on the Cape Flats (above). The Democratic Alliance wants the Western Cape to take over policing responsibility from the national government.

DA renews bid to control policing in Western Cape

The party has bristled at billionaire Johann Rupert’s remarks that the Cape Flats are the epicentre of South Africa’s violent crime problem

Communications Minister Solly Malatsi   (Instagram)

Malatsi denies ICT directive paves way for Elon Musk’s Starlink into South Africa

Critics say the timing is suspect, coming after businessman Johann Rupert, part of a delegation to Washington last week, said South Africa needed Starlink technology to help to…

Pay-TV provider StarSat challenges Icasa over expired licence

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has ordered StarSat to stop broadcasting after failing to renew its licence on time

President Cyril Ramaphosa

South Africa gets R14.4 billion in spectrum sale to MTN, Telkom

Sale of mobile telecommunication spectrum is ‘a significant milestone in our reform agenda’ — Ramaphosa

What is spectrum, why is it being auctioned, and how does it affect consumers?

What the sale of mobile telecommunication spectrum means for South Africans

What is spectrum, why is it being auctioned, and how does it affect consumers?

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo by Michele Spatari/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Ramaphosa hails IEC lifeline, trumpets basic income grant

The ANC president said the basic income grant should be cost effective and subject to long-term affordability

Over the past decade, the South African Post Office has had significant business problems, including debt to creditors and poor revenue collection.

Post Office owes R842m to worker pension fund and medical aid

There is growing concern about a possible liquidation of the entity should it not be repurposed

No comment (yet): Given Mkhari’s MSG Afrika is a majority shareholder in Rhythm FM. Disgruntled shareholders are concerned about the fate of the radio station. Photo: Gallo Images/City Press/Elizabeth Sejake

Seven years’ radio silence for taxpayer-funded Rhythm FM

Almost R50-million of taxpayers’ money has been invested but the station is yet to broadcast a single show

Pay-TV inquiry probes the Multichoice monopoly

Africa’s largest subscription television operator says it is under threat amid the emerging popularity of global platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime

(John McCann/M&G)

Rhythm FM is R52-million of dead air

A R6-million lawsuit is offering new insight into why the state-funded station has not yet broadcast