The satellites will be used for surveillance of the waters, including shipping movements within the country's exclusive economic zone.
Management says it has made progress towards building a sustainable organisation and the business is now more focused and less complex.
Cabinet approves policies that respond to tech advancement and innovation, including putting out the draft data and cloud policy for public comment.
The Competition Tribunal deals Facebook-owned WhatsApp a blow, restricting it from removing the official citizen engagement platform for government from the messaging app.
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South Africa desperately needs to up its connectivity for citizens to engage in other forms of economic activity, stresses Broadband Infraco CEO Andrew Matseke.
Minister Barbara Creecy says climate change and global warming are real, and SA is aware of the risks and knows coal contributes to this effect.
The regulator lauds the ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal against Telkom on a matter relating to the leasing of facilities between licensed operators.
PPPs to fast-track digital transformation
Hosted in partnership with ITWeb Brainstorm and BCX, a Public Sector in ICT Forum event took place at Protea Fire & Ice in Menlyn on 17 August. Attendees could benchmark with industry leaders who have entered successful PPPs and engage in meaningful conversation to foster change in the digital journey of both the public and private sector. #ppp #digitaltransformation #bcx
Matatiele, Kokstad and Mount Fletcher are some areas where mobile network operators have deployed temporary spectrum to overcome historical capacity constraints.
The city says the ShotStopper gunshot detection system allowed for a more frequent, faster and accurate response to gunshots.
The revised policy of the ambitious government broadband programme bumps up connectivity speeds from 10Mbps to 100Mbps, pending budget confirmation for phase two rollout.
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme will receive the first batch of laptops promised to qualifying students in April, reveals minister Dr Blade Nzimande.