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The Milky Way cannibalised a galaxy one quarter of its mass 10 billion years ago, according to new research.

Karen Breytenbach, who oversaw the expansion of South Africa’s privately owned renewable energy projects, said she was asked to vacate her job about nine months before her contract expires.

The department of communications & digital technologies was meant to publish the policy direction on the assignment of broadband spectrum in South Africa last Friday, but failed to do so.

When it comes to data, MTN has a problem. While it is selling more of it, it is also under pressure to slash the cost of providing access to the Internet. A solution may lay in financial services.

Eskom has advertised for a new CEO two months after Phakamani Hadebe announced he’d vacate the post.

South Africa will ramp up support for its ailing state-owned power utility Eskom with an additional R59-billion spread over two years.

Interswitch, a Nigeria-based payments firm, has hired advisers to resurrect plans for a stock-market listing in London and Lagos later this year, people familiar with the matter said.

Well-known South African hosting provider Hetzner has changed its name to Xneelo, it said on Monday.

Bob van Dijk received almost R1.9-billion in salary, incentives, and vested share options and shares appreciation rights in the year to March 2019, a regulatory filing published on Friday shows.

As part of an ambitious reform programme, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed plans to award telecommunications licences to two private operators next year, and sell a minority stake in Ethio Telecom.