Vodacom South Africa’s prepaid revenue accelerated in the second quarter, and its margin hit its highest level since FY2023.
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Government will publish its evidence-based case for 5.2GW of nuclear power at the end of November.
Home-Connect and Afrihost charge the same prices and apply the same fair-use limits on Comsol’s new network.
Vodacom has since secured waivers from its lenders, but its appeal against the ruling has yet to be heard.
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Government will make changes to Eskom’s board of directors after electricity outages reached record levels this year.
Cape Town-based on-demand home cleaning and services platform SweepSouth has raised a further $11-million in funding, this time led by Alitheia IDF.
Ellies Holdings said on Monday that it will embark on a “formal consultation process” with employees under the Labour Relations Act.
Capitec has become the latest South African bank to launch a mobile virtual network operator, and is promising aggressively priced data.
MultiChoice Group will launch two channels in 4K in time for the Fifa World Cup, which kicks off in Qatar on 20 November.
In an update on Friday, Eskom said it plans to move to stage-4 load shedding on Saturday and stage 3 on Sunday as it continues battling plant breakdowns.
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Private equity firm Thoma Bravo agreed to buy Sophos Group for $3.8-billion, taking the British cybersecurity firm private in the biggest takeover of a UK technology firm this year.
WeWork is considering a bailout that will hand control of the co-working giant to SoftBank Group, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Facebook’s effort to create a cryptocurrency was dealt a blow on Friday after several key partners, including Mastercard, Visa, eBay, Stripe and Mercado Pago, abandoned the project.
The US and China agreed on the outlines of a partial trade accord on Friday that President Donald Trump said he and his counterpart Xi Jinping could sign as soon as next month.
Perhaps best known for its foray into pornography, TopTV’s anti-climax in the world of broadcasting has resulted in a little-known fact: South Africa has suffered a loss of almost R1,2bn because of this venture, which critics say it should not have flirted with in the first place. Three arms
Whatever happened to cracking open Telkom’s last mile of copper cables into homes and businesses to rival broadband operators? The industry regulator has gone silent on the issue, leaving industry players wondering whether local-loop unbundling has quietly been shelved
