Author: Duncan McLeod

Shares in Adapt IT plunged more than 10% on Monday morning after claims were published at the weekend that CEO Sbu Shabalala hired armed thugs to beat up the partner of his estranged wife, Neo.

The Post Office is mounting a campaign to enforce its monopoly over the delivery of small items. If it gets its way, it will inflict long-lasting damage on South Africa’s fledgling e-commerce industry. By Duncan McLeod.

MTN’s South African subsidiary is flying. MTN Group reported on Wednesday that quarterly profit margins at the unit expanded significantly on the back of solid service revenue growth.

The City of Johannesburg has reassured residents that the end of an SAP support contract with EOH Holdings will not affect the city’s billing system or its other IT infrastructure.

Gyms group Virgin Active has fallen victim to a cyberattack. The company posted a notice on its website late on Friday warning clients that its systems have been compromised.

The high court has ruled that Ayo Technology Solutions’ bid to overturn First National Bank’s decision last month to close the JSE-listed technology group’s banking facilities will not be heard on an urgent basis.

Government recently published a draft national data and cloud policy that has potentially far-reaching implications. Bowmans partners Heather Irvine and Livia Dyer unpack what it all means in this podcast interview.

Rob Shuter, who resigned as CEO of MTN Group last year and who has since taken a senior role at the UK’s BT Group, was paid R73.8-million in his final eight months at the JSE-listed telecommunications firm.

Altron has declared a special dividend of 96c/share after it successfully spun off Bytes as a separate listing in London and Johannesburg and ended up with more cash than it expected.

Two years after TechCentral broke the news that the US SEC was investigating a dodgy licensing deal involving Microsoft and EOH at the department of defence, EOH has agreed to pay back the money.