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Government, set to miss a deadline to appoint a new distributor of welfare grants worth about R140bn/year to more than 17m people, asked aspirant bidders to an information session as the end of a contract with Net1 UEPS

Naspers, Africa’s biggest company by market value, is seeking partnerships with mobile phone operators on the continent to boost its video-on-demand business and help compete with US giant Netflix. The owner of Africa’s biggest pay-TV provider

Parliament may ask the new SABC board, once it has been appointed, to conduct a forensic audit into a controversial channel supply agreement between the public broadcaster and commercial pay-television

African technology start-ups raised at least $129m in funding in 2016, with the number of companies securing funding rising by almost 17% over the previous year, according to new research. Disrupt Africa’s Tech Start-ups Funding Report

Amazon.com and India’s Flipkart Online Services have walked away from talks to acquire Dubai-based Souq.com after disagreeing over price, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The e-commerce business is now seeking

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday commuted the 35-year sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former army intelligence analyst who was convicted of leaking classified material, and pardoned marine-general James Cartwright. Manning, who

Vodacom is offering its customers free access to a data-light version of Facebook, the mobile operator said on Tuesday. Facebook Flex, the first of a number of products Vodacom plans

Abraaj Group, the private equity firm that invests across emerging markets, is interested in buying Barclays Group’s African business, CEO Arif Naqvi said. “It’s a very fine bank run by a very fine