Of the 10 companies worth more than $100-billion that analysts predominantly rate as buy, Tencent – 31.2% owned by South African-listed Naspers – has by some distance had the worst 2018.

Discarded by its globe-trotting parent Naspers after more than three decades, African pay-television heavyweight MultiChoice Group is facing an uncertain future.

MultiChoice South Africa CEO Calvo Mawela is confident the pay-television broadcaster can arrest the decline in the number of lucrative DStv Premium bouquet customers on its books.

Despite severe criticism from communications minister Nomvula Mokonyane, the SABC intends pushing ahead with a restructuring that is likely to include retrenchments to reduce its cost base.

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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will hitch the first SpaceX ride around the moon and plans to invite as many as eight artists to join him – with the rocket Elon Musk possibly signing up for the space flight.

Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk, together with Naspers video entertainment CEO Imtiaz Patel and MultiChoice South Africa CEO Calvo Mawela, held a media call on Tuesday morning to discuss the plan to unbundle MultiChoice. Listen to it here.

A day after announcing a plan to unbundle pay-television unit MultiChoice, Naspers’s online classifieds business OLX has made a R1.4-billion investment in specialised car-buying service Webuycars.

Oracle has reported sluggish quarterly sales and projected anaemic growth in the current period, signalling it continues to stumble in its transition to cloud computing.

Most studies of the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs and the economy have focused on developed countries such as the US and Britain. But the gravest threat AI poses is to emerging economies.