In the diamond trading world, becoming one of De Beers’ elite buyers is viewed as essential to achieving success and making money. Now, it’s no longer so easy.

Dark Fibre Africa is keen to buy or build tower and data centre assets as it expands beyond the provision of fibre telecommunications infrastructure in South Africa.

On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der berg talk about government’s spectrum policy direction to communications regulator Icasa.

South Africa’s anti-graft ombudsman is investigating Eskom’s deals with 27 independent power producers, Independent Online reported, citing a leaked document.

France stuck to its plan to tax big multinational technology companies, defying US President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he might impose tariffs on French wine.

Released five years after Icasa tried to license access to the spectrum for broadband services, the final policy is not dissimilar to what the communications regulator originally intended.

Eskom is challenging the South African energy regulator in court over a tariff increase the state-owned utility says isn’t sufficient, Mining Weekly reported, citing court papers.

Nedbank Group is in talks with about 1 500 employees over potential job cuts at the lender’s retail and business banking division to cope with a struggling economy and increased competition.

Millions of young people are turning their personal Instagram accounts into “business” profiles to learn more about how their posts are performing. The trend has an unintended privacy consequence.

The problems of South Africa’s state-owned enterprises are in the headlines every day. Yet many have existed for over 80 years.