The head of South Africa’s nuclear company has said a request for proposals to build reactors is expected to go out as early as June as five potential suppliers emerge as leading candidates. Companies from South

A week after President Jacob Zuma appeared to have weathered calls to resign, former leaders of the ANC are ratcheting up pressure on him to quit after his shock cabinet purge prompted two ratings agencies to downgrade the

Just a week after downgrading South Africa’s foreign currency rating to “junk”, S&P Global Ratings has changed its rating outlook on the country’s biggest fixed-line telecommunications operator, Telkom, to “negative”. Its rating has been

Social development minister Bathabile Dlamini bypassed officials at the country’s welfare department and helped create a crisis that would ensure that Net1 UEPS Technologies would continue to distribute payments on behalf of the government

International ICT company Datatec is in talks to sell a major share of subsidiary Westcon’s operations for more than US$800m. Datatec, which is listed on the JSE, with a secondary listing on London’s AIM, operates across three

Seacom said at the weekend that an outage is affecting services to some clients. The problem, on segment 15 of the Seacom submarine cable system, is located slightly west of Djibouti in the Red Sea and occurred on 8 April at about 9pm South