Author: Duncan McLeod

French media giant Groupe Canal+ has acquired a not-insignificant stake in South Africa’s largest broadcasting company, DStv parent MultiChoice Group, prompting a surge in the JSE-listed firm’s shares.

Altron has won an appeal at the supreme court, overturning the high court’s earlier decision to set aside the awarding of a broadband contract by the City of Tshwane to Thobela Telecoms.

Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams’ WhatsApp account was “hacked”, her department said in a statement on Monday.

The future of JSE-listed electronics and technology group Ellies is in some doubt after it warned this week that Covid-19 has cast “material uncertainty” over its ability to continue as a going concern.

Communications regulator Icasa has published an invitation to apply for parties interested in investing in South Africa’s planned wholesale open-access network, or Woan. These are the details.

South Africa will soon have a new “digital bank” in the form of Bettr, a fintech start-up that has been working on building a “new challenger” in the country’s finance sector. TechCentral speaks to co-founders Tobie van Zyl and Andrzej Stempowski.

Dimension Data executive chairman Jeremy Ord speaks to TechCentral in a wide-ranging discussion on everything from the aftermath of the 2001 technology crash to corruption in South Africa’s IT industry to his group’s new go-to-market strategy.

Operators will no longer have to hand back temporary spectrum assignments, awarded to them under the Covid-19 state of disaster regulations, until the spectrum auction is held in March 2021.

JSE-listed software services company Adapt IT saw a massive jump in its share price on Wednesday after it issued a surprisingly upbeat trading statement.

Remgro, the largest shareholder in CIVH – the parent company of Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa – has attached a R19.3-billion valuation to the telecoms infrastructure holding company.