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Journalists are set to picket outside the SABC’s offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town on Friday in solidarity with the public broadcaster’s staff. A message of the intended action was widely circulated by journalists and news

MTN Nigeria has won access to the 2,6GHz spectrum band. This is a crucial band for providing wireless broadband services and comes well ahead of the allocation of access by South African authorities to local mobile operators, including

Regulation is unlikely to hobble the R6,5bn sale of telecommunications business Neotel to connectivity provider Liquid Telecom, said representatives of the latter company. India’s Tata Communications, which owns a controlling

Private equity fund managers raised R29bn in 2015, up significantly from the previous year’s R11,8bn. According to the Savca 2016 Private Equity Industry Survey, this is the highest number on record and includes funds raised for

Nearly 50% of start-ups say they created a business out of an idea that came to them from the environment in which they live, while 85% of all start-ups are self-funded. These are two findings of South Africa’s largest start-up survey

Vodacom parent Vodafone, weighing the impact of the UK vote to quit the European Union, said it’ll consider moving its headquarters elsewhere unless the country negotiates continued access to the European Union’s single

Offline shopping is South Africa is set to receive a boost with a new application designed to drive shoppers to local stores. Unlike the concept of a traditional shopping application that focuses on e-commerce, MiBrand is designed

Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking is buying a 25% stake in Comsol, joining shareholder Convergence Partners, as the company gets ready to spend hundreds of millions of rand building a fibre and wireless broadband network

MultiChoice South Africa Holdings chairman Nolo Letele has said it would “absolutely make sense” to list the pay-television broadcaster on the JSE, but the requirement of its broadcasting licence that 30% of its equity be in black