In its annual assessment of the cabinet, the Democratic Alliance has given poor grades to the ministers of communications and telecommunications & postal services. South Africa’s largest opposition party scored telecoms
Author: Staff Reporter
Altron chief financial officer Alex Smith will step down at the end of February 2018 to take up the same role at Net1 UEPS Technologies. Smith had been at Altron for 12 years. Smith replaces Herman Kotze as CFO
Communications regulator Icasa has found that Cell C followed due process during its recapitalisation, as part of which Blue Label Telecoms and Net1 UEPS Technologies invested R7.5bn in the company, the mobile operator
Datatec shareholders are in line for a special cash dividend totalling R4.9bn following the Johannesburg- and London-listed IT group’s sale of its Westcon Americas unit. The group said on Wednesday that is has declared a special
Not only does Elon Musk deny being the mysterious creator of bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto, but he’s also forgotten where he keeps his cryptocurrency. Musk’s assertions came in response to a blog post coursing through
The Democratic Alliance has called on MultiChoice to publish the contracts it entered into with the Gupta-owned 24-hour news channel ANN7 along with the record of negotiations with the channel. It also wants parliament to
Electronic payments specialist i-Pay has secured R10m in venture capital funding from Kalon Venture Partners, which it intends using to expand to other countries outside South Africa. The company, which facilitates bank-to-bank
Gauteng is challenging Cape Town as the epicentre of the technology start-up scene in South Africa, according to new research. There has also been a jump in the number black entrepreneurs, though they are not as
JSE-listed technology services group Adapt IT is acquiring CDR Live for R42.8m in cash in a deal that will expand its footprint in South Africa and Australia and give it a toehold into the US market
Massmart-owned retailer Makro has acquired a majority stake in delivery start-up WumDrop. With the acquisition, the company said it plans to shrink the window between a customer order from three