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MTN has won a partial victory following a complaint lodged at the Advertising Standards Authority over a television advertisement flighted in October 2013 by rival Vodacom. The commercial centres on a fictional family, the Khumalos. When a member of the family expresses
Former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan, who joined the board of social network Mxit as chairman in September 2013, has acquired a stake in AngelHub Ventures, a Cape Town-based company that provides seed funding to start-up businesses. Kevin Harris, who has worked
The South African Communist Party (SACP) on Tuesday urged the SABC board and parliament’s communications portfolio committee to take decisive action following the public protector’s report. “Decisive action is needed to turn the SABC around in all
The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) has urged parliament’s transport portfolio committee to look beyond roads agency Sanral’s input on Tuesday. “Sanral speaks like a soccer coach whose team has lost 2-0 with an own goal having been scored and
The SABC will analyse public protector Thuli Madonsela’s report, which found its acting chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, had operated above the law. “We have just received the report today,” said SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago
The Democratic Alliance has called on communications minister Yunus Carrim, in his capacity as shareholder representative at the SABC, to instruct the public broadcaster’s board to suspend its acting chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, with immediate
Successive SABC boards allowed controversial acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng to operate above the law, public protector Thuli Madonsela said on Monday. She released a report entitled “When governance and ethics fail” at a media briefing
Naspers’s share price has added nearly a third in the past three months and has more than doubled in the past year as investor excitement in its Chinese affiliate, fast-growing communications and e-commerce firm Tencent, reaches fever pitch
Fibre-optic telecommunications specialist Dark Fibre Africa has announced it is to acquire Conduct, a last-mile fibre developer that provides high-speed access to business customers in South Africa’s urban centre. DFA has traditional focused on metropolitan
The submission deadline for a draft review of the end-user and subscriber service charter has been extended, Icasa said on Monday. The extension was moved from January 21 to March 14, said spokesman Paseka Maleka in a statement. “The extension has been granted based on
