President Cyril Ramaphosa has suffered the same false start as his predecessor nine years ago: a recession in his first six months in office.

Johannesburg-listed telecommunications group MTN said on Tuesday that is has concluded the sale of its subsidiary in Cyprus to Monaco Telecom, and has collected €262-million in cash from the transaction.

Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko has urged policymakers to “anticipate what the problems will be in 2025” and to look at regulation holistically instead of dealing with each on a standalone basis.

Mercedes-Benz, the world’s largest maker of luxury cars, is rolling out its first in a series of battery-powered vehicles, adding to a growing array of high-end brands targeting Tesla.

TechCentral’s interview with Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk and letgo co-founder Alec Oxenford was the website’s most popular podcast in August 2018, according to statistics from platform partner iono.fm.

South African telecoms operators will have to jump through several tricky regulatory hoops – and roll out services in rural areas first – to get access to new radio frequency spectrum.

Department of telecommunications & postal services director-general Robert Nkuna has vowed that South Africa will be among the first countries to deploy next-generation 5G networks.

MTN Group CEO Rob Shuter said the company is committed to Nigeria even as it considers how to respond to an order to return $8.1-billion in repatriated funds.

MTN Group and four lenders won approval from Nigeria’s central bank to repatriate funds in a ruling last year, indicating Africa’s largest wireless operator is at least now complying with regulations it’s accused of flouting prior to 2015.

The 2018 A-Class from Mercedes-Benz brings a major technology update to the luxury compact car segment in the form of artificial intelligence.