Five Huawei-branded stores have been closed after an ugly dispute over non-payment allegedly amounting to millions of rand to a local partner of the Chinese consumer electronics giant. Nisaar Ally, owner of Fantastic 1 Mobile, which

South Africa is seeking to raise as much as R4bn from the sale of part of its 39% stake in Telkom to raise funds for the country’s unprofitable state airline and post office, according to two people familiar with the

In the penultimate episode of TalkCentral for 2017, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg delve into the week’s big technology news, including Amazon Web Services’ deal with Teraco. Also this week, they look at Asher Bohbot’s

In this episode, Duncan McLeod interviews Sonny Fisher, founder of the Forus Holdings, a company that hopes to reinvent the financial services industry using blockchain technology. The Forus Global Digital Exchange (Forus is pronounced

Walt Disney Co has agreed to a $52.4bn deal to acquire much of the global empire that media baron Rupert Murdoch assembled over three decades, from a fabled Hollywood studio to Europe’s largest satellite-TV provider to

Almost a quarter of a century after Nelson Mandela led the ANC to power at the end of apartheid and the world heralded the birth of the “rainbow nation”, South Africa stands at a crossroads. As delegates of the ANC meet this weekend

The South African Revenue Service is in discussions with some of the top technology companies in the world to enable it to track cryptocurrency trades more efficiently. Interest in cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin, has risen significantly

Former EOH CEO Asher Bohbot will return to the business he founded on a full-time basis to focus on strategy and stakeholder management, the listed technology group said in a statement on Wednesday. Bohbot returns to EOH at a

Amazon Web Services’ Direct Connect product is now available through Teraco’s JB1 and CT1 data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Teraco said on Wednesday the product provides customers with direct access to AWS

Google has announced the results of its 2017 “year in search”, showing the year’s major moments and top trends based on Internet searches conducted in South Africa. This year’s trending searches show growing interest in local celebrities