The alliance banking deal lets South Africa’s biggest retailer expand its financial services without becoming a bank.
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MTN says it and Cell C have not agreed on certain terms of their commercial relationship.
ACT’s Nomvuyiso Batyi explains why South Africa’s telcos won’t back Icasa’s biometric Sim rules as drafted.
A new chief digital officer and strategy head complete six senior appointments at the troubled State IT Agency this financial year.
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S&P Global late on Wednesday downgraded its outlook on South Africa to “stable” from “positive”, citing infrastructure constraints and the severe power crisis.
Business sentiment declined to a two-year low in the first quarter as severe power outages and dilapidated logistics networks hobbled economic activity.
Freddy, which has menaced Madagascar and Mozambique, appears to have become the longest-lasting tropical cyclone ever.
TikTok outlined an effort to strengthen its data protection practices amid a widening crackdown on the Chinese app in Western nations.
The rand dropped sharply overnight and hit its lowest level in almost three years early on Wednesday. Blame the Fed.
Karpowership has had one of three appeals against adverse environmental rulings rejected, a source has said.
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Elon Musk elaborated on his pledge to sell his homes and most of his possessions, telling comedian Joe Rogan that people are increasingly and wrongly taking a dim view on the existence of billionaires.
Zoom has announced plans to introduce end-to-end encryption after confirming the acquisition of a secure messaging and file-sharing service.
Telefonica and Liberty Global have agreed to create the UK’s largest phone and Internet operator, a deal that threatens its rivals and marks another industry-defining merger for billionaire John Malone.
Uber Technologies will eliminate 3 700 jobs and permanently close 180 driver service centres, the first in a series of cost-cutting measures to be announced in the next two weeks.
MultiChoice is aggressively expanding its digital terrestrial television (DTT) footprint across sub-Saharan Africa. This is contributing to rapid growth in the number of pay-TV subscribers on its books outside its home market of South Africa. For the year ended 31 March 2014, the Naspers-owned company added
Last week, Internet service provider Afrihost made headlines for launching a R1 999 smartphone that comes bundled with 1GB/month of data for 12 months. Turns out there’s a South African company behind the smartphone, called the Zest T1. Zest Mobile, a start-up founded just a year ago, is catering
