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MTN Group’s plan to sell shares in its Nigerian unit on the local stock exchange next year is at risk following allegations by lawmakers that Africa’s biggest wireless carrier illegally moved almost

SABC acting head of corporate affairs Hlaudi Motsoeneng waxed lyrical on job creation, business economics and empowerment at an ANC Youth League KwaZulu-Natal lecture on economic freedom in Durban on Thursday

As MTN’s much-lauded black economic empowerment scheme Zakhele enters the final stages of its maturity, uncertainty is growing in the market about the take-up of the newly formed Zakhele Futhi by investors. MTN Zakhele Futhi was meant to be

Democratic Alliance MP Marian Shinn has questioned whether the department of telecommunications & postal services has conducted a regulatory impact assessment for its planned wireless open-access network. The controversial proposed

MTN Group executive chairman Phuthuma Nhleko has sold shares worth about R123m as he prepares to hand over the day-to-day running of Africa’s biggest wireless company to incoming CEO Rob Shuter. Nhleko will also benefit from the

Seacom, the company that built the first subsea telecommunications cable along Africa’s east coast, has said it plans to make acquisitions that will give it direct access to metropolitan fibre infrastructure

Eskom’s most ardent supporter of the proposed nuclear build, Matshela Koko, has been appointed as acting group CEO of Eskom. The announcement was made by public enterprises minister Lynne Brown late on Wednesday

Netflix is making some television shows and movies available for download to watch offline, providing its users a feature that has become a must-have for binge-watchers. Many fans have requested to watch Netflix content without an

Mobile may dominate as an access medium for the Internet in South Africa, but it’s fixed lines that are consuming most of the data traffic – and they will continue to do so. That’s according to Seacom chief development officer Suveer