The notion that a Vodacom employee could seek compensation for the idea for the “Please call me” service was “foreign”, former group CEO Alan Knott-Craig testified on Wednesday. “[At Vodacom] we did try and run a company based on respect
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Former Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig was accused of being evasive on Wednesday when asked if MTN planned to sue the company for stealing the “Please call me” idea. “Your worship, the witness is being evasive about it,” Cedric Puckrin, acting for former Vodacom
Controversy-plagued former communications minister Dina Pule has been appointed to parliament’s portfolio committee on transport. This is despite the fact that Pule faces a number of ongoing investigations into allegations of corruption and nepotism
Two unions representing workers at the SABC have filed a dispute with the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA)…
Emerging-markets private equity firm Actis has agreed to acquire electronic payments specialist Paycorp Holdings, part of South African financial services group Transaction Capital, in a blockbuster deal worth R937m. Paycorp has been a wholly
The invention of Vodacom’s “Please call me” service came under scrutiny when former Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig testified in the high court in Johannesburg, Business Report reported on Wednesday. In Knott-Craig’s biography, Second is Nothing
The DG Murray Trust, an investment trust founded through endowments from late construction mogul Douglas Murray and his wife Eleanor, and which disburses about R100m/year to organisations involved in socioeconomic development, has turned its attention to finding ways of reducing South Africa’s
Fans of celluloid won’t like this news. South Africa’s largest cinema chain, Ster-Kinekor, which is owned by privately held media group Primedia, will complete its migration from film to digital projection technology by 17 December this year. CEO Fiaz Mahomed says
Tourism Radio has turned to US crowd-funding website Kickstarter in an effort to raise £35 000 (R530 000) to fund the development of travel guides for Google Glass. Based in Cape Town, Tourism Radio was founded in 2005 by entrepreneur Mark Allewell. The
Vodacom failed in a bid in the high court in Johannesburg to have the “Please Call Me” case scrapped, Business Report said on Tuesday. On Monday, the court denied an attempt by Vodacom to have the case set aside, and it was expected to resume this week. Former Vodacom employee