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Offline shopping is South Africa is set to receive a boost with a new application designed to drive shoppers to local stores. Unlike the concept of a traditional shopping application that focuses on e-commerce, MiBrand is designed

Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking is buying a 25% stake in Comsol, joining shareholder Convergence Partners, as the company gets ready to spend hundreds of millions of rand building a fibre and wireless broadband network

MultiChoice South Africa Holdings chairman Nolo Letele has said it would “absolutely make sense” to list the pay-television broadcaster on the JSE, but the requirement of its broadcasting licence that 30% of its equity be in black

Fast-growing and privately held pan-African telecommunications group Liquid Telecom majority owned by Econet Global has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Neotel for R6,55bn. The deal comes just months after Vodacom was forced

Econet Wireless Global affiliate Liquid Telecom agreed to pay R6,55bn for South African telecommunications operator Neotel, creating the continent’s largest broadband network and business-to-business phone

There is no revolt at the SABC, the public broadcaster’s board chairman Obert Maguvhe said on Tuesday. “The SABC is stable,” he told reporters at its Auckland Park head office, via video link from the SABC’s Polokwane studio. He said he was

SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has scoffed at suggestions that the public broadcaster is engaging in censorship, saying censorship is an English concept, so he “doesn’t know it”. Speaking at a media briefing at the SABC’s Johannesburg head office

Communications minister Faith Muthambi has described the timing of the resignation of acting SABC CEO Jimi Matthews as “suspect” and hit out at him for not raising his grievances with her office. In a statement issued on Tuesday

Telecommunications company Neotel expects regulators to approve the sale of its business to Econet-owned Liquid Telecom before the end of March 2017. India’s Tata Communications, which owns a controlling stake in Neotel, announced on Tuesday