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Brian Armstrong is the second highest paid member of Telkom’s executive committee after CEO Nombulelo Moholi. Armstrong, who heads Telkom Business, took home R10,5m in the 2012 financial year, of which R2,8m was in the form of a guaranteed package and R6,7m was in fringe and other benefits
Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban will be the first to get access to MTN’s commercial fourth-generation (4G) network but Cape Town will not get access to the network, at least at first, because of a lack of available spectrum in the Mother City. MTN SA chief technology officer Kanagaratnam Lambotharan says MTN is on track to launch commercial
Telkom spent more than R200m repairing and replacing damaged and stolen copper-cable infrastructure in the financial year ended 31 March 2012. It spent a further R150m on security to protect the network from opportunistic thieves and criminal syndicates. The company says in its 2012 group integrated
Mobile messaging platform and social network Mxit has acquired Cape Town-based start-up Motribe for an undisclosed amount of money. Motribe was founded two years ago by Nic Haralambous and Vincent Maher and is 30% owned by local start-up investment firm 4Di Capital. Motribe, which employs eight
Telkom CEO Nombulelo Moholi has rejected speculation that she intends resigning next month, when Telkom chairman Lazarus Zim leaves, Business Report reported on Tuesday. “There’s nothing like that. Have you ever heard a quote from me saying that? All I can give you is I’m denying the rumour,” Moholi, who
Julius Malema’s legal team is expected to set up a dedicated website to deal with queries about the expelled ANC Youth League leader’s court case. In a press statement released on Tuesday morning, Brian Kahn Inc said that over the past few days it had received hundreds of text, emails and telephone queries from journalists
Government would begin a final round of talks on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project on Tuesday, the presidency said on Tuesday. The first meeting would be held with the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, spokesman Thabo Masebe said. “This is
SA’s largest online fashion retailer, Zando, has secured an investment from JP Morgan Asset Management. The investment will be made through Zando’s German holding company and will see the US investment firm take a stake worth more than US$10m, though the exact figure has not been disclosed. The company
Former Vodacom Group CEO Pieter Uys will join the management team of Stellenbosch-based investment firm Remgro in April 2013 on a full-time basis. He will also join the company’s board of directors. Remgro, which emerged from Rembrandt — the tobacco and industrial conglomerate founded by Anton Rupert — was one of the
Canada’s Research in Motion (RIM) confirmed on Friday that it was experiencing renewed problems with BlackBerry network services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The outage appears less widespread than the October 2011 meltdown
