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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Despite a weekend report of an approach by MTN Group, Telkom shares were trading lower on Monday, implying investors don’t believe a deal is imminent or even possible.
Eskom’s power supply crisis is intensifying. The state-owned power utility has announced stage-4 load shedding from 1pm on Monday until 5am on Friday.
The International Finance Corporation has partnered withLiquid Intelligent Technologies to expand data centre capacity and roll out fibre-optic cable in Africa.
Shares of MTN Nigeria hit an all-time high on Monday after receiving approval to operate mobile money services in Africa’s most populous country.
Shabir Madhi has been a key player in shaping the country’s response. Here he provides an assessment of plans to vaccinate adolescents, and next steps.
MTN Group recently expressed an interest in acquiring Telkom, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing unnamed sources “familiar with the matter”.
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Facebook has said it expects to name the first members of a new quasi-independent oversight board by the end of the year.
The Trump administration proposed new regulations on Tuesday to toughen national security reviews of foreign investments in US companies involved in technology and infrastructure.
Germany has delivered a blow against Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency, expanding Europe’s opposition to the social network’s financial ambitions.
WeWork pushed back its much-awaited initial public offering, and said it now expects to complete the listing by the end of this year as concerns mount over the company’s governance, valuation and business prospects.
First it was self-driving cars, then Google Glass, and now with Project Loon, Google is turning its attention to … balloons. The company has begun a pilot project in New Zealand using high-pressure balloons in the stratosphere to provide Internet connectivity “at 3G speeds” and, if it goes well, Google wants to encircle
Telkom has agreed to pay a R200m penalty, to functionally separate its retail and wholesale divisions, to adhere to pricing commitments for the next five years, and to allow its future conduct to be monitored. This all forms part of a settlement with the Competition Commission over anticompetitive abuses
