Author: Gugu Lourie
President Jacob Zuma signed the Criminal Matters Amendment Act, 2015 into law on Monday, the presidency said, a move that spells bad news for cable and scrap metal thieves. By Genevieve Quintal, NewsAgency The act amends the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 and introduces harsher sentences for the destruction of essential infrastructure and more stringent bail conditions and applications for perpetrators. “The amendments provide for changes to the law pertaining to infrastructure-related offences by making stricter provisions for the granting of bail, the sentencing of offenders and creating a new offence to criminalise damage to, tampering with or destruction of essential infrastructure…
MTN SA Foundation has today opened the new state-of-the-art ICT and life skills centre in the Velokhaya Life Cycling Academy in Khayelitsha, following the sod-turning ceremony that was held in July this year.
South African-based mobile phone giant MTN has become the latest operator to join Telefónica’s partnership programme, which aims to pool resources, expertise and access markets to compete globally in the changing telecommunications industry.
President Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet has denied claims that it secretly approved the start of the nuclear procurement programme during its meeting just before Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene was fired last Wednesday.
Applications are open for the next batch of 500 Startups companies, and home cleaning platform SweepSouth, which has just returned from its four-month programme in San Francisco, believes that more local entrepreneurs should be taking up the chance.
4 Africa Exchange (4AX), a newly formed company, is keen to set-up a stock exchange in South Africa that will rival the current incumbent, the JSE. The firm has roped in Maponya Group as its empowerment partner. By Gugu Louri
A new feature that allows TV shows and movies to be downloaded and watched while offline has been added to the ShowMax Android app.
SA Broadcasting Corporation COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng says he is delighted at the outcome of an internal disciplinary hearing that cleared him of all charges on Saturday.
A rather unexpected course of events late Sunday night (13 December 2015), as Zuma “reconsiders” his decision to fire finance minister Nene, and reappoints Pravin Gordhan (who should never have been replaced last year in the first place with a presumably more pliable Nene) as finance minister.
The reappointment of Pravin Gordhan as the minister of finance, replacing David van Rooyen who was put in the seat four days ago, hasn’t stopped South Africans from expressing their outrage. A new hashtag #ZumaMustStillFall is trending on Twitter.