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Shareholders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a major shake-up at technology group Altron, ending decades of absolute control by the Venter family and ushering in a new strategic shareholder in the form

Recent research by TomTom shows that Cape Town has the most congested roads in South Africa. The city’s CBD is particularly hard hit by traffic delays. Now a new technology-based initiative has been launched to try to tackle the problem head-on. Accelerate

“Data leakage”, where consumers lose data without using it, is a “technical impossibility”, an industry body has said, dismissing growing complaints from users that their mobile data is disappearing. “This surge in data usage

Fibre-to-the-home broadband provider Vumatel has taken its first tentative steps into the KwaZulu-Natal market, acquiring Durban based fibre company Estate Connexions. Terms of the deal have not been

Just days after Telkom announced FreeMe Family, a new set of family- and small business-focused tariff plans, rival Cell C has taken the wraps off three new products also aimed at families. The new plans

MTN, which previously cautioned it would report a loss for the full-year ended 31 December 2016, has now provided more guidance on the likely range of the losses. Africa’s biggest mobile operator expects

MultiChoice is expanding its DStv Now streaming service to more subscribers, it said on Friday. Until now, DStv Now has only been available to DStv Premium customers with an active personal video recorder decoder.

Telkom’s chief commercial officer is stepping down. Brian Armstrong will “retire” at the end of March, group CEO Sipho Maseko said in an e-mail to employees on Thursday. Armstrong joined Telkom in 2010 from BT Global Services

Former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe was sworn in as a member of parliament for the ANC on Thursday morning. He was controversially nominated to take up an MP seat by the ANC in the North West, prompting