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A report on the Gupta family will be ready before outgoing public protector Thuli Madonsela finishes her term, she said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Rhema Bible Church’s Truth Be Told conference, Madonsela told journalists

Vodacom has won an estimated R5bn contract with the South African government as the national treasury seeks to cut costs, according to three people familiar with the matter. The tender is to supply as many as 1,3m government

A malicious Android app, available until recently in the Google Play store and capable of seizing root access rights on users’ phones, has been downloaded more than half a million times, according to security

MTN Group, Africa’s largest mobile-phone operator by sales, rose for a second day after raising more than US$1,3bn (R18,6bn) in loans before the potential sale of bonds. The shares jumped 2,2% to R121,49 as of 12.29pm in Johannesburg

Media24 is selling financial and market data feeds provider INET BFA to financial markets technology specialist IRESS for R149,6m in cash. The acquisition of INET BFA will add to IRESS’s trading, market data, portfolio

Technology group EOH has continued to defy weak economic conditions, posting a robust set of results for the year ended 31 July 2016. Headline earnings per share rose by a quarter to R7,19 on the back of a 31% improvement in

Samsung Electronics will push out a software update for Korea that caps the capacity of Galaxy Note7 smartphone batteries at 60%, a stop-gap measure to prevent overheating as the device’s global recall proceeds. The unusual move, announced

Tuesday’s launch of an online reality television show called #BreakTheNet is just the start of a big push by Cell C into the media business. The mobile operator’s executive head of marketing, Doug Mattheus

MTN Group, Africa’s largest mobile phone operator by sales, said it entered three loan agreements, raising more than US$1,3bn as the company markets a potential bond sale. The company is being