The East African Community (EAC) has agreed to remove taxes on set top boxes, which convert analogue TV signals to digital pictures, in a bid to alleviate people in buying the devices, as the region approaches the digital migration deadline set at December 31, 2012, Daily Monitor reported. The tax exemption will reduce the prices of set top boxes by about 25%. The global deadline for migration to digital broadcasting is set at June 17, 2015. In sub-Saharan Africa, only Kenya and South Africa have tested for the implementation of the migration. |
South African company Exxaro Resources said one of the options it currently considers is dismissing striking coal mine workers who fail to return to work in the week of March 25, fin24 reported ... more
South Africas telecommunication operator Telkom said that it has not made a decision on retrenching 13,000 employees, or more than half of its staff, TechCentral reported quoting a company ... more
Oryx Energies, a major independent provider of oil and gas products and services in Africa, has agreed to buy the South African liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distribution businesses of BP and ... more