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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Cell C has appointed Stephen Morony, a former company executive, as the new chief officer of its wholesale business.
JSE-listed IT services group EOH Holdings has outlined a plan to restructure its debt following a planned rights issue.
South Africa has a plan to improve energy provision that will end the need for any power cuts within the next 12-18 months, Enoch Godongwana said.
ENSafrica has been held liable for R5.5-million that a property buyer intended to deposit in its trust account but which was stolen by cybercriminals.
South Africa’s National Energy Crisis Committee expects record power outages to ease as new measures take effect.
MTN Group plans to start a dispute resolution process if talks with Ghanaian authorities over a surprise back-tax bill it received last week fail.
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Dell Technologies has sold one of its cybersecurity units, RSA, for $2.1-billion, part of the computer maker’s efforts to streamline its business.
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos plans to spend $10-billion of his own fortune to help fight climate change. He will start giving grants later this year to scientists, activists and nonprofits working to protect the Earth.
Apple doesn’t expect to meet its revenue guidance for the March quarter because of work slowdowns and lower smartphone demand, showing that the virus outbreak in China is taking a bigger-than-predicted toll.
Bill Gates paid Tesla a compliment for coaxing the car industry to go electric. If he was expecting kind words in return, he apparently shouldn’t have spoken about challenges that still lie ahead – or about his new Porsche.
Controversy-plagued SABC acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng is going nowhere if his boss — the only person who can fire him — has her way. SABC board chairman Ellen Tshabalala said this week: “Hlaudi is diligent and very capable. The members of the board are right behind
Facebook is stumping up US$19bn in cash and shares to buy popular instant messaging platform WhatsApp, which has 450m active monthly users and which is adding a million new users a month. The deal could have been driven, at least in part, by a “potentially massive threat from the

































