Author: Duncan McLeod

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Wednesday evening that he will keep Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams on as his minister of communications.

Naspers will list on its consumer Internet business on Amsterdam’s Euronext exchange on 17 July, subject to market conditions, in a bid to unlock shareholder value.

In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Intergreatme CEO Luke Warner about how the technology start-up managed a R32-million fundraising round using a crowdfunding platform.

Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko hopes to work with other industry players to present a plan to President Cyril Ramaphosa about how to deal with the challenge presented by the US’s blacklisting of China’s Huawei.

While its rivals Vodacom, MTN and Cell C struggle with flat growth in a tough economic environment, Telkom is killing it in the mobile business, showing astonishing growth in subscribers in the past year.

In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews Telkom Group CEO Sipho Maseko on the group’s 2019 financial results.

Telkom’s property management company Gyro plans to open many more buildings and high sites to other mobile operators as the partially state-owned company looks to extract more profit from its property portfolio.

While Telkom is cleaning up in mobile, its fixed-line business continues to feel pressure as competition bites and as the company continues to switch off wireline infrastructure. But the numbers are far from shocking.

In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg unpack the developments around Huawei and what they might mean for the future of the company and smartphones as we know them.

In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod is joined by Jolla CEO Sami Pienimäki to talk about the implications for the world of smartphone operating systems of the US government’s decision to force Google to hang up on Huawei.