Former Vodacom and Vodafone executive Rob Shuter has been named as the new president and CEO of telecommunications group MTN after an extensive search. Shuter, who is a previous chief financial officer at Vodacom
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space-exploration company launched and landed an unmanned rocket on Sunday while testing a parachute failure, a key step in checking the safety of its New Shepard vehicle before sending it to space
Researchers in Stellenbosch have developed avionics for the two DebrisSats which will remove space junk in orbit around Earth. But a local satellite project – developed by CubeSpace, one of Stellenbosch
MTN Group’s record US$1,7bn Nigerian fine is about to get a whole lot cheaper. MTN rose the most in a week on Friday as investors prepared for a slump in the Nigerian naira after Africa’s second-biggest crude producer’s central bank said it will
The Gupta brothers’ friendship with President Jacob Zuma has been made a “little more difficult” since allegations of state capture emerged this year. Gupta spokesman Gary Naidoo said the Guptas continue to have a relationship with
On the back of a solid financial performance in the year ended 31 March 2016, Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub took home R21,8m in pay, R14m of which was made up of a short-term incentive bonus. That’s double the
Anonymous Africa have shed more light on why it targeted websites belonging to the SABC and Gupta-owned Oakbay Investments this week. Both the public broadcaster and Oakbay Investments confirmed this week that their
Illegal connections overloaded the electricity grid causing power outages across parts of Johannesburg this week, Eskom said on Friday. Eskom said communities should “refrain from connecting themselves illegally
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he’s enthusiastic about the company’s US$26,2bn acquisition of LinkedIn, viewing it as an opportunity to build a business network for the working world like Facebook has created for
Salesforce.com was a rival potential bidder for LinkedIn in the process leading up to the professional networking website’s acquisition by Microsoft, according to people familiar with the matter. Salesforce was advised by Goldman Sachs in the