The number of subscribers on MTN South Africa’s network declined by almost 3% in the past year to 29,8m, parent MTN Group revealed in its interim financial results for the six months ended June 2016. The prepaid and
A series of public spats between South African cabinet ministers, state companies and departments are exposing divisions in the ruling party and risk spooking investors in an economy the central bank forecasts will record zero growth this year.
MTN has hit a perfect storm of bad news in the first half of its 2016 financial year, with the telecommunications group warning that it will report a basic headline loss per share of between R2,55 and R2,85 on Friday when it
It is too early to declare any kind of victory, DA Nelson Mandela Bay mayoral candidate Athol Trollip believes. But so far, the Eastern Cape party leader is happy with the results. The DA is currently in the lead in Nelson
MTN Group shares gained the most in more than five weeks after Africa’s biggest mobile phone operator booked the full value of a 330bn naira (US$1bn) fine in Nigeria, drawing a line under a 10-month saga that
The rand headed for a nine-month high against the dollar to lead global currency gains as results from South African local government elections showed a swing to the main opposition. Early counting from municipal voting
Gupta-owned television news station ANN7 fired five more journalists on Tuesday. They had taken part in protests and other demonstrations in solidarity with eight colleagues who were dismissed in June
The BBC has launched its iPlayer radio app in South Africa and markets around the world, allowing users to tune into the British public broadcaster’s wide range of radio stations streaming on the Internet. Available in
Nobody must be victimised at the SABC, deputy minister of communications Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams told journalists on Wednesday during her visit to the Electoral Commission of South Africa centre in East London
Telkom has promised to seek maximum criminal prosecution against “saboteurs” who cut backbone fibre-optic infrastructure in Limpopo yesterday, affecting the services of thousands of fixed-line and mobile users in