New shareholders have taken up shares in Frogfoot, Vox and Hypa in a transaction valuing the businesses at R14.4-billion.
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In a marked break from rivals Vodacom and Telkom, MTN South Africa is dialling back airtime advances to its customers.
Households will not be able to choose who sells them electricity when South Africa’s competitive electricity market opens.
MTN’s network spending in South Africa fell 17.1% while Nigeria received nearly three times as much in capital investments.
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Virtual wheeling, being trialled by Vodacom and Eskom, could be one of the answers to the ongoing energy crisis.
Mauritius Telecom is assessing opportunities in several African nations as part of a key strategic initiative.
The Huawei Watch GT 4 series shows that the company’s ambitions in consumer electronics are undimmed.
South Africa will name a new Eskom CEO by the end of the year, public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan said.
The regulator is investigating a report that South Africa’s State Security Agency recently fell victim to a cyberattack.
The SABC will air matches from the ICC Cricket World Cup after it reached a sublicensing deal with MultiChoice.
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In the desert just north of Las Vegas, a long white metal tube sits at the base of the mountains, promising to one day revolutionise travel.
Facebook’s oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company’s suspension of former US President Donald Trump in a verdict that may signal how the company will treat rule-breaking world leaders in the future.
An Israeli mission plans to send four astronauts on a SpaceX rocket early next year to test dozens of new technologies that could enable the next generation of space travel.
SpaceX has received more than 500 000 preorders for its Starlink satellite Internet service and anticipates no technical problems meeting the demand, founder Elon Musk said on Tuesday.
There are as yet unconfirmed reports that Twitter plans to extend its 140-character limit to 10 000. But why would Twitter consider radically changing its most unique characteristic? Today’s media culture is one of extreme speed and ephemerality – facts and factoids, comment, claims
South Africa’s basic education minister Angie Motshekga announced on 5 January that 70,7% of the country’s matrics – learners who wrote their final grade 12 exams in 2015 – passed. Some can now

































