Author: Staff Reporter

Craige Fleischer, director of integrated mobility at Samsung Electronics in Southern Africa, has resigned to “pursue new business opportunities”, the Korean-headquartered consumer electronics group said in a statement on Thursday

Altron said on Wednesday that it has reached an agreement to sell its 80% stake in Powertech Transformers, one of its legacy businesses, for R250m. The stake is being acquired by a consortium made

MTN South Africa is introducing a biometric fingerprint scanning system in an effort to crack down on identity theft in its retail stores. The mobile operator said it has strengthened its security with the

SpaceX will launch Zuma into space this week. No, not President Jacob Zuma. The company, headed by South African-born billionaire Elon Musk will fire a secretive payload into low-earth orbit on Wednesday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket

Johannesburg- and New York-listed Net1 UEPS Technologies, the company that owns Cash Paymaster Services, the business that pays social grants on behalf of the South African government

South African consumers are about to get their first taste of Chinese phone maker OnePlus’s line of smartphones. The company will launch its flagship OnePlus 5 device in South Africa next week. Distribution for the

MTN is facing another potential multibillion-rand headache, just days after being cleared by Nigerian politicians over allegations of illegal repatriation of $14bn. The problem this time is Benin, where the regulator claims MTN

Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko said on Thursday that the newly appointed CEO of Gyro Group, the operator’s property management business, Lesiba Maloba, has been tasked with “ruthless execution” in commercialising

Liquid Telecom, which acquired Neotel earlier this year in a R6.5bn deal, has announced it plans to upgrade its fibre routes in South Africa using the latest 100G technology. The company said at AfricaCom in Cape Town

Two days after Vodacom said it would begin trialling 5G services in South Africa on a limited basis, MTN has also jumped on the bandwagon, saying in a statement on Thursday morning that it has signed a memorandum of understanding