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Oakbay Investments and Gupta family patriarch Ajay Gupta have expressed “delight” with the affidavit filed by finance minister Pravin Gordhan and said the court case will provide an opportunity for the family to clear its name. In a statement issued by Gupta family

Nazeem Howa stepped down as CEO of Oakbay Investments, a Johannesburg-based holding company owned by the Gupta family, on Monday citing health reasons. The announcement came four days after finance minister Pravin

Technology “accelerator” Sw7 has announced plans to open an “innovation hub” and co-working space in Johannesburg. The @Sw7 Workspace will be the first such space to open in the north of the city, according to its backers. @Sw7 Workspace will offer

Cell C is “very definitively” offering the best deals for consumers looking to get their hands on Apple’s new iPhone 7. Tariffic, a company that helps retail consumers and businesses save money on their cellphone bills, has

Altron’s share price leapt higher on Friday on news that the long-troubled JSE-listed technology and industrial group is set to report a swing to profitability in the six months to end-August 2016. Headline earnings per share for total

Afrihost said on Tuesday that it is entering the fibre-to-the-home market using the infrastructure deployed by Vumatel, Telkom’s Openserve and TT Connect, a fibre provider on Johannesburg’s East Rand. Now, the company has

Afrihost, the Internet service provider best known for its aggressively priced digital subscriber line and mobile data products, is belatedly entering the fibre-to-the-home broadband market. The company said on

First National Bank customers on Tuesday morning complained that they couldn’t access the company’s online banking facilities, or its transactional banking application. Chief information officer Mo Hassem confirmed the outage

State-owned rail, port and pipeline company Transnet wants access to a prime allocation of spectrum in the 1,8GHz band, communications regulator Icasa said on Monday. There’s a hitch, though: part of the spectrum is