So cellular giant MTN has finally revealed the massive scam behind its supremely irritating Ayoba campaign: this Christmas, 500 employees will be getting job cuts in their stockings.
Ayoba, we are told, means "super-cool". And by extension, everyt...
In the past six months Vodacom made more than R14 billion, 12.2% better than it performed previously. While millions of South Africans suffer the very worst of the global economic crisis, it seems counter-intuitive that a telecommunications comp...
Whatever happened to the African renaissance? I thought that shifting priorities, not to mention last year's xenophobic violence, had long since consigned it to the dustbin of history, as a catchphrase anyhow.
Just when it seemed that we were to ...
(Disclaimer: Excuse the language in this blog. I’m posting it from an internet café and I’m seated next to two giggly teenagers on Facebook)
Apologies for going AWOL on you. I wrote my blogs as is our deal. Honest. But the dog ate my blog. We...
OF COURSE, this question has been asked hundreds, if not thousands, of times. It's been asked about our national soccer team Bafana Bafana and the answer is clearly "No!"
It's been asked of our stadiums and the answer seems to "Yes, if ...". It's ...
A reasonable, basic, start-up desktop PC with all the necessary accessories and running Microsoft Windows' notoriously atrocious Vista will set you back at least R8 000. Add in broadband connectivity and the mandatory ball-and-chain contracts, and ...
Marshall McLuhan predicted a Global Village of interdependence based on new communication technology in the 1960s. Since then the concept has taken on new connotations with the advent of the internet and its assumed ubiquitous. However, the negativ...
Bad things can happen anywhere. And they do happen in Australia. Take the case of 54 year old Brian Gilsenan, a Scottish emigrant who was attacked in an apparently motiveless crime in the Sydney CBD four months ago. He died on Saturday. The police ne...
South Africa has one of the worst service ethoses in the world. I'm trying to think which nation in the world that I have travelled to is worse and can't. And yes, I deliberately avoid Nigeria, there is just so much trauma I'm prepared to experience ...
There is quite a buzz around WiMax, especially so in developing nations where the high cost of rolling out fixed-line telecoms has left them considerably lower down the broadband pecking order than their First World counterparts.
But is it going t...
