Author: Duncan McLeod

MTN South Africa grew its subscriber base by 7.1% at the end of March 2022, from a year ago, to reach 34.5 million subscribers.

Two of South Africa’s biggest fibre providers, Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa, are being folded into a new infrastructure holding company to be led by Vuma CEO Dietlof Mare.

Eskom chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer has pleaded for an end to talk shops and for an urgent start to building new electricity generation capacity.

First on TechCentral | Dis-Chem has disclosed that a data “incident” involving a “third-party service provider” has led to the compromise of millions of client records.

Vodacom Group has appointed Sitho Mdlalose as the new MD of its South African operation, replacing Balesh Sharma.

Icasa said on Monday that it still more time to probe South Africa’s subscription television industry and come up with possible regulations.

If a sale is being seriously considered, it’s worth asking: who would want to buy EOH, and who could afford it?

Eskom has had four fewer days of load shedding in 2022 to date, compared to the same period in 2021, though the extent of the rolling power cuts has been more severe.

Zoom Video Communications is expanding its South African office and has appointed First Distribution as a partner in a major channel sales push.

IT services firm Gijima has hired IBM’s former Southern Africa head Hamilton Ratshefola as its new group managing executive, replacing Maphum Nxumalo.