Author: Duncan McLeod

With the third wave of Covid-19 in full swing in South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa has moved the country to “alert level 3”, restricting alcohol sales and strictly limiting the size of public gatherings.

Mediclinic is not wasting any time taking advantage of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to raise the limit on the self-generation of electricity.

Former Vodacom Group chief technology officer Andries Delport will replace Thinus Mulder as CEO of Dark Fibre Africa, Remgro-controlled DFA parent CIVH said on Monday.

Icasa said late on Friday that it is nearing a “settlement breakthrough” with telecommunications operators that will allow a planned spectrum auction to proceed.

Avvatta, the brainchild of the former CEO of Cell C’s now-defunct entertainment platform, Black, has been launched, promising more competition in the already-crowded streaming video market in South Africa.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday moved to deal with the electricity supply crisis harming the South African economy by lifting the limit on self-generation of power to 100MW.

The pan-African pay-television operator, which owns DStv and SuperSport, has lifted its subscriber base by 1.4 million in the past year to reach 20.9 million households.

The president has encouraged mobile operators, Icasa and the department of communications to engage in mediation to get South Africa’s spectrum auction back on track.

MultiChoice Group is increasing its stake in BetKing, an Africa-focused sports-betting platform operator, to a non-controlling 49% investment for R3.8-billion.

African Equity Empowerment Investments, controlled by Iqbal Survé’s Sekunjalo Group, has told Britain BT Group that it can’t exercise a call option to terminate its agreements with the company.