South Africa’s newest mobile network operator, Rain, appears to be having some serious teething troubles. It has “temporarily suspended” the sale of fixed-wireless 4G/LTE products.

Vodacom has reportedly paid more than R1.2-million to forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan after the cellphone giant allegedly handed over confidential call records to the legal team representing a former high-ranking member of the criminal underworld.

Protests at some South African power stations amid deadlocked wage talks are stopping coal from getting to plants and threaten to force the country’s electricity provider to implement rolling blackouts.

EOH and prospective black-owned equity partner Lebashe have amended their planned empowerment deal. Lebashe will now invest R1-billion in the JSE-listed technology services group.

After 18 months of false starts, it appears that Samsung is finally almost ready to launch its smartphone payments platform in South Africa.

Naspers is considering the listing of certain parts of its sprawling global media and technology business outside South Africa as the continent’s largest company by market value seeks to reduce its size.