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The Ingonyama Trust Board and Vodacom have signed a landmark agreement to build cellular towers in rural KwaZulu-Natal, aiming to improve mobile connectivity and empower local communities.
Four months after hearing the high-profile 'Please Call Me' case between inventor Nkosana Makate and Vodacom, the Constitutional Court has yet to deliver judgment. Legal experts express concern about judicial delays while Makate remains hopeful for resolution.
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Tshwane District Police officers conducted an intelligence-driven operation targeting essential infrastructure crimes, aimed at curbing the illegal trade of secondhand goods and the sale of stolen property linked to vital infrastructure.
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub sells over 165,000 shares amidst a decline in salary, while the company forecasts stronger performance in the second half of the financial year.
Five foreign national travelling in a Datsun-Go were nabbed during a road block with batteries from a Vodacom cellphone tower.
The companies have agreed to collaborate to build, own, and operate solar-powered mobile base stations in underserved areas of the DRC.
The Department of Basic Education launches the Safe Schools App to tackle the issue of pit toilets in South African schools, promoting safety and dignity for learners.
Vodacom KwaZulu-Natal is ramping up security measures to combat a surge in base station vandalism and battery theft
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Tau filed a notice of appeal earlier this week with the competition appeal court and is seeking to have the tribunal’s decision reviewed.
Thuthuzela Care Centers are one-stop facilities established by the NPA, which provide pre-trial services, psychosocial support, medical treatment, and legal services on-site.
Two Independent Media journalists were awarded last night, beating out stiff competition from around the country to be judged the best in their respective categories.
Journalist Robin-Lee Francke and photojournalist Ayanda Ndamane have been recognised for their remarkable work in storytelling through writing and the lens.
If Vodacom had succeeded in this deal, poorer, rural South Africans would be the ones to suffer, the author says.
Makate complains to apex court that he has never received a cent from the country’s largest mobile network operator despite his invention over two decades ago
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The judges said Ndamane submitted three images that not only captured the intensity of the news events but also demonstrated the photographer's remarkable courage and proximity to the action.
Robin-Lee Francke has come out victorious after bagging two awards at the Western Cape’s 2024 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards.
Unwavering determination and persistence to get the story no one else had earned our reporter Mervyn Naidoo a Vodacom Journalist of the Year award.
Congratulations are in order for IOL deputy editor, Lee Rondganger, who was on Tuesday announced as a regional winner at the 2024 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards.
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Media reports have suggested that the latest ruling in favour of the former Vodafone employee on Friday means that the UK-based telecoms company, which owns over 60% of Vodacom, could not make a case to be admitted in the matter amicus curiae — a “friend of the court”.
A Malawian pastor who spent a year orchestrating the thefts of batteries from Vodacom and MTN cellphone towers around the country, will spend the next decade behind bars.
The position paper points out that OTT service bypass “traditional distribution channels and legislative and regulatory frameworks”, while acknowledging they offer “end-users more control and freedom in their content consumption”.