Author: Staff Reporter

Instant messaging application WhatsApp was unavailable in Zimbabwe on Wednesday amid fears that the government was clamping down on social media as the economically and politically troubled Southern African country faced a day of national protest

MTN Group chief financial officer Brett Goschen is stepping down. He will leave at the end of September “to pursue other interests”, the telecommunications group said in a statement to shareholders on Monday morning.

Employees of communications regulator Icasa walked off the job on Monday over various grievances dating back to 2015 that they say have not been addressed by management. The employees have vowed

MTN South Africa said on Friday that it will cut 63 temporary jobs filled by labour brokers at its Midrand warehouse operations as it moves to streamline and improve the distribution of devices to consumers. It said it is modernising the facility

Seedstars World, a global seed-stage start-up competition for emerging markets, has named IDWork as South Africa’s top start-up. The company will represent South Africa at the Seedstars Summit in Switzerland where will compete for up

Fast-expanding broadband fibre-to-the-home provider Vumatel has received the second and final tranche of R250m in funding from Vantage Capital, a mezzanine fund manager. Vantage Capital said on Friday that the funds will

A former Vodacom executive, who was once also CEO of the SABC, has been named as a deputy CEO of Absa parent company Barclays Africa Group. Barclays Africa said in a statement to shareholders on Friday that

Tariffic, the company that analyses the mobile operators’ tariff plans to offer businesses and consumers the best rates based on their requirements, has conducted an analysis of how much it costs to terminate a contract with South Africa’s major

Standard Bank is not commenting on a new report that police have found that a Standard Bank computer system was probably compromised during an international heist in which Y1,8bn (about US$17,6m) was illegally withdrawn from ATMs across Japan

MTN Nigeria has won access to the 2,6GHz spectrum band. This is a crucial band for providing wireless broadband services and comes well ahead of the allocation of access by South African authorities to local mobile operators, including