262Clarity on Eskom end-state crucial to energy sector reforms, says Krutham. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement during his State of the Nation Address (Sona) on 12 February creates the ideal platform to define a credible…
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MultiChoice scraps annual DStv price hike
90 MultiChoice Group CEO David Mignot. Image: (c) Aurelien Pierron For the first time in many years, DStv subscribers will not face a price increase in April – a significant strategic shift…
Here’s how much a bottle of alcohol could cost after next week’s budget speech
78 Tax on spirits has doubled since 2016. Alcohol company Diageo warns the tax on spirits could exceed R100 per 750ml bottle if Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana implements a more than 6%…
Service is everyone’s problem now
87 If you’re leading technology in a South African organisation right now, you’ve probably felt the same tension: service expectations keep rising, while teams stay lean. It shows up in the small…
Free Market Foundation slams treasury’s proposed gambling tax
102 The Free Market Foundation (FMF) is demanding that a national 20% tax for online gambling proposed by the national treasury be withdrawn and reconsidered within South Africa’s existing decentralised regulatory regime….
Farmers sweat over uncertainty of Tongaat Hulett’s future
88 Farmers fear missed milling windows could wipe out months of work. Nkosinathi Msweli, who grows sugarcane in Kearney, Stanger in the KwaDukuza area of KwaZulu-Natal, said uncertainty about the embattled Tongaat…
What Gen Z really thinks about the tech world it inherited
100 My smartphone is face down on my desk as I write this, not because something is wrong with it but because I am trying to finish one thought without it interrupting…
Showmax ‘can’t continue’ in its current form
98 MultiChoice Group CEO David Mignot has confirmed major changes are coming to the loss-making Showmax platform, reaffirming that the current model is not sustainable. In a wide-ranging interview with TechCentral on…
Spar CEO resigns with CFO to take over in March
128 He is not the first Spar CEO to jump ship amid uncertainty. Angelo Swartz resigned as Spar Group CEO on Friday morning. It comes as the group faces a hefty lawsuit…
SABC Plus tops two million registered users
92 SABC Plus, the free online streaming platform, has reached two million registered users, the public broadcaster said in a statement on Thursday. According to the SABC, the SABC Plus platform continues…