Allegations by the Sunday Times that President Thabo Mbeki had taken a bribe related to the stupid arms deal only served to fluff up the gloomy clouds hanging over the country.
Watching Microsoft squirm at GovTech, SITA's annual conference, makes visiting the outpost of Durban well worth the journey.
Perjury charges against a Vodacom executive have put a wobble into the spin that network operators care for their customers.
The buy-out of the rest of Datacraft Asia by Dimension Data stole much of the local ICT headlines last week.
Fifa may be facing bankruptcy, as it tries to figure out how to pay its Telkom bills.
Despite mass unemployment and overstrained educational infrastructure, your tax money is paying for the next generation of American war machines.
The country is awash with people who don't know when to keep their mouths closed.
Results went from the good (Google, IBM and Microsoft), the bad (Nokia) and the ugly (AMD).
Conferences can be great fun, if you spend them looking out for oddities, curiosities and inconsistencies in the data.
Only three things are needed to stimulate the Western Cape's ICT sector, but the political will is lacking.
Syntax-Brillian Corporation will also sell-off Vivitar, its brand of digital still and video cameras.
South Africans get the chance of a lifetime to work for free to make the FIFA fat cats even fatter. Hurry, sign up now!