Author: Staff Reporter

One of the biggest retail and industrial areas in Johannesburg, Strijdompark in Randburg, is getting fibre broadband. BitCo has announced plans to wire up the large number of businesses in the area

The International Finance Corporation, which forms part of the World Bank Group, and related funds managed by the IFC Asset Management Company are buying a 18% stake in South Africa- and US-listed technology group Net1 for US$107,7m (about R1,6bn). IFC has agreed to

Google and partner Livity Africa have revealed a programme to train a million young Africans in digital skills in the next 12 months. The companies intend to provide training to

Roads agency Sanral on Tuesday tore strips off the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse, accusing the lobby group of making statements and claims that are both defamatory and actionable

Open-access fibre telecommunications infrastructure provider DFA (Dark Fibre Africa) has acquired a “significant minority stake” in fibre-to-the-home specialist SA Digital Villages for an undisclosed sum. The transaction will see

Fibre broadband infrastructure provider Metrofibre Networx has reached an agreement with Link Africa that will see it replace all of the links for its core network with its own fibre over the next two years. Until now, the company has leased the fibre links for its core

Troubled technology group Altron has signed a binding agreement to dispose of its long-held subsidiary Aberdare Group for R1,2bn in cash. Altron subsidiary Powertech, which owns Aberdare, has entered into binding agreements to sell Hengtong Optic

MultiChoice has announced that is has added 22 channels to its DStv Now streaming service, bringing the total number of live channels to 46 and stepping up the rivalry with sister company ShowMax. DStv Now can be accessed online

Have you already had just about all the Jacob Zuma news you can handle for 2016? Are you fed up with reading about the president’s foibles? Well, a new Web browser extension for the popular Google Chrome is here to help. The extension, developed by

South Africa’s most-used social network, Facebook, will this weekend remind South African users to register to vote – the last chance they’ll have to do so before the local government elections on 3 August. It’s the first-ever voter registration campaign that