President Jacob Zuma ordered the country’s social development and finance ministers to ensure that welfare payments are made to beneficiaries on 1 April, the day after a distribution contract with Net1 UEPS Technologies is due to expire. Zuma held talks

Social development minister Bathabile Dlamini said she took responsibility for the failure of the country’s welfare department to comply with a ruling by the nation’s top court. The constitutional court in 2013 said a contract between the

South Africa should consider splitting state power company Eskom into transmission and generation units to prevent it from undermining the country’s independent power producer program, the ruling ANC said. While the government has championed

JSE-listed IT distribution group Pinnacle Holdings, which is in the process of changing its name to Alviva Holdings (share code from PNC to AVV), said it will consider acquisitions worth as much as R1,3bn. The acquisition talks follow a strong

Mobile World Congress, the premier wireless technology conference in Barcelona, was supposed to be a coming out party for Google’s digital assistant. But at this year’s proceedings, the artificially intelligent voice-based service

MTN Group on Thursday reported a headline loss of 77c/share for the year ended 31 December 2016 as a perfect storm, headlined by a multibillion-rand fine in Nigeria, its biggest market, culminated in what it has