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    Helios Towers wants to build a thousand telecommunication towers in South Africa in the next three years as it tries to capitalise on rapid growth in mobile services and shape up for an initial public offering.

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    South Africa’s first fully fledged smartphone factory is to open at Dube TradePort Special Economic Zone north of Durban, as pan-African investment conglomerate Mara Group proceeds with its plans to invest R1.5-billion into the project.

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