Source: MyBroadband Parts of Cell C’s head office in Midrand, which boasts a customer walk-in centre, an IT centre, warehouse facilities and office space, is for rent. The Cell C campus was developed by Atterbury, with construction starting in July 2012 after an...
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Health and tech giants are creating ‘vaccination passports’
By Kate Duffy for Business Insider US Health and tech giants are together creating digital vaccination passports so people can prove they’ve had a Covid-19 shot. Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Cerner, Epic Systems, and the Mayo Clinic are all part of the...
Netflix tops 200m subscribers
Source: EWN Netflix on Tuesday topped subscriber growth expectations in the past quarter, keeping ahead of new streaming rivals competing for viewers stuck in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic. The streaming television leader added some 8.5 million paid...
2021’s top tech predictions
By Andrew Scott for Telestra The start of the decade has been challenging for many reasons, and we saw how technology played a vital part in helping us get through it. We’re already looking ahead to what advances in technology may bring in 2021. With fast connectivity...
SA Post Office on the brink of collapse
Source: MyBroadband The South African Post Office (SAPO) is on the brink of collapse and is facing bankruptcy despite receiving R8-billion in bailouts since 2014. This is a warning from the DA’s shadow deputy minister of communications and digital technologies,...
SA’s booze ban is costing Consol R8m a day
By Ntando Thukwana for Business Insider SA Even as breweries cull orders for glass bottles because of the alcohol sales ban, South Africa’s glassmakers are forced to keep their furnaces running or risk permanent damage. As a result, they are losing millions of rands...
Unions want all lockdown retrenchments blocked in South Africa
Source: Supermarket & Retailer The Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa) has called for a moratorium on all retrenchments and potential ‘future processes’, in an effort to preserve jobs during the country’s Covid-19 lockdown. Fedusa is the second largest...
Brace for Stage 8 loadshedding, says expert
Power and mining expert Ted Blom has warned South Africans that they should brace themselves for the worst year of loadshedding yet in 2021, with Stage 8 being a possibility before the end of winter. In the latest episode of the Free Marketeers podcast, Blom provided...
Parents aren’t legally forced to buy from prescribed school stationery suppliers
Source: Cape Talk Education law specialist Sue Larkan says parents aren’t legally obligated to purchase back-to-school stationery from a specific supplier or brand. Larkan is the founder of learner rights group Tabansi, which assists parents and pupils with...
Start of school year delayed
By Liam Ngobeni for IOL Public and private schools will only reopen officially on February 15. Addressing the media on the start of the 2021 school year, Deputy Minister of Basic Education Reginah Mhaule said the calendar for schools had been revised to move...
Back-to-school on a budget
Source: News24 Those lengthy back-to-school stationery lists are back in every student’s home by now and from the great expense (why is glue so expensive?) to the odd requests (toilet paper, really?) you might be pulling your hair out already. Parent24 spoke to...
WhatsApp users flock to rival message platforms amid privacy concerns
By Zoe Kleinman for BBC Message platforms Signal and Telegram have both seen a huge surge in downloads around the world following a controversial update to WhatsApp’s terms and conditions. WhatsApp has told its two billion users they must allow it to share data...
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