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MTN Group is considering selling about $500m in shares of its Ghana business, according to people familiar with the matter. The company is approaching high-net-worth individuals in the country about

Digital distributed ledger technology, dubbed the “blockchain”, is being over-hyped, at least in the short-term, says Gartner’s senior vice-president for technology, Peter Sondergaard. Blockchain acts as a digital distributed ledger to

Former SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng will remain an employee at the public broadcaster, SABC board chairman Mbulaheni Maguvhe said on Tuesday. “Mr Motsoeneng is still an employee. He would be going back to the

As the festive season fast approaches, Cell C is looking to capitalise on consumers’ cellular spending plans by offering them cash – up to R10 000 – to switch to the company’s high-end contract packages

Current editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian Verashni Pillay has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post in South Africa by Media24. Media24 and the Huffington Post recently announced the

MTN has hit back at allegations emanating from Nigeria’s senate that it illegally moved almost US$14bn (about R188bn) out of the West African country. The company is accused of repatriating the funds over 10

MultiChoice is introducing a new DStv Explora personal video recorder decoder and debuting 10 new high-definition channels following the recent successful launch of the Intelsat-36 satellite

The national integrated ICT policy white paper, which is likely to set the cat among the pigeons over spectrum policy, will be discussed at Wednesday’s cabinet meeting, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation. The white

MTN Group shares slumped the most in three months after Nigerian lawmakers raised new allegations about the wireless carrier, this time accusing the company of illegally moving almost US$14bn out of its largest market. Nigeria’s senate

Feature phones dying? Not in Africa, they aren’t. New research from International Data Corp shows that shipments of feature phones in Africa in the second quarter of 2016 surged by 31,9% year on year, to 29,8m units