The candidate of South Africa’s main opposition party was elected mayor of Johannesburg, ending the ruling ANC’s control of the nation’s economic hub as well as the capital, Pretoria, after its worst electoral performance

Telkom agreed to stop giving financial help to directors to buy shares in the company three years after a loan to former chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte was found to have breached the terms of the

The ministry of communications has washed its hands of the SABC’s internal problems in what has been described as a move to distance itself from chaos at the public broadcaster. In a statement on Monday

Telkom and the Communication Workers Union are locked in a bitter battle over continuing strike action. Hundreds of Telkom staff have launched strike action against the company over a pay dispute. The CWU, which

Telecommunications group MTN started a R9,9bn empowerment plan that will boost black ownership of its South African unit to more than 30% and allow Africa’s biggest mobile operator to bid for high-speed Internet

Plans are afoot to have all 4m citizens of Johannesburg connected to free Wi-Fi within five years. Zolani Matabese, head of broadband for the City of Johannesburg, said a thousand hotspots for access to the Internet