The government continues to throw money at long drawn-out technology and communications projects holding back the economic benefits of the fourth industrial revolution.

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana and his team at the National Treasury have allocated an additional R3bn for the department of communications & digital technologies — led by Khumbudzo Ntshavheni — to implement the SA Connect broadband project...

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