Naspers and Prosus chairman Koos Bekker has sold shares in both companies worth about R2.5-billion over three trading days.
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Groupe Canal+ and Warner Bros Discovery have struck a last-minute agreement to keep channels like CNN on DStv.
The rand ended 2025 nearly 13% stronger against the US dollar, marking its biggest annual gain in 16 years.
Louis Gerstner, the former CEO and chairman of IBM, died on Saturday, aged 83.
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South Africa’s national state of disaster, in place for more than two years in response to Covid-19, ended at midnight on Monday.
RCS, the consumer finance arm of French banking group BNP Paribas, has acquired South African online credit provider Mobicred.
First National Bank has launched a new range of “lifestyle solutions” it says are designed to help and reward customers in areas beyond financial services.
Operating hours at home affairs offices will be extended to 6.30pm on Monday after the department’s systems went offline nationwide on Friday.
Johannesburg’s electricity infrastructure is being pilfered by armed criminal syndicates “on an industrial scale”, MMC Michael Sun said.
MultiChoice must negotiate a commercial agreement with the SABC to carry the public broadcaster’s channels on DStv, communications regulator Icasa has decided.
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Google parent Alphabet is slowing hiring for the remainder of the year, the most drastic action by the Internet search giant since the Covid-19 pandemic began battering its advertising business.
GoPro said it will cut more than 200 jobs, shift the company’s sales operation to market its digital adventure cameras directly to consumers and withdraw its 2020 financial guidance.
ByteDance just kicked off a wave of hiring it envisions hitting 40 000 new jobs in 2020, at a time technology corporations across the globe are furloughing or reducing staff.
Airbnb has lined up $1-billion in debt, adding to last week’s same-size haul and boosting a financial cushion it can use to grow and pay bills as the global coronavirus pandemic crushes demand for travel.
There’s a revolution under way, and this one’s not being agitated by the working class, although they certainly have their part to play. It is being waged by banks, cellphone providers and entrepreneurs hoping to capitalise on a mobile commercial market that is estimated will be worth more than US$800bn by 2016 and have more than 400m users
Quadrocopters in South Africa have made headlines in recent months over whether it’s legal to use them. But quadrocopters are not just tools for filmmakers or toys for fun — there is a more serious side to them, one that could change the way we look at robotics. A South African robotics student living in Switzerland is working with some of the brightest
