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The head of South Africa’s welfare agency defended his decision to initiate talks with the Post Office as a contingency plan in case a contract to distribute grants with Cash Paymaster Services, a unit of Net1

Vodacom Group’s Tanzanian unit plans to raise R2,8bn in a share sale, the first of a series of initial public offerings by telecommunications companies on the domestic stock exchange this

Blue Label Telecoms has denied its contract with Vodacom to distribute airtime is being cancelled, rubbishing widespread market speculation that the mobile operator has served notice to terminate

Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year as it continues to work with Nasa for a planned crewed mission to the International Space Station. The passengers

JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms and Cell C have reached an 11th-hour agreement that now appears to pave the way for a major restructuring of the debt-laden mobile operator

Cell C has hit back at its black economic empowerment partner CellSAf, which at the weekend threatened to take the mobile operator to court if it proceeds with a planned restructuring in terms of which

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

Telkom has launched a new cellular product family, called FreeMe Family, extending its market-shaking, data-led FreeMe plans launched in mid-2016. The new plans are meant to help families – and small