Finance minister Pravin Gordhan filed court papers that implicate President Jacob Zuma’s friends, the Gupta family, and companies they control in “suspicious transactions” totaling R6,8bn, signalling
Cinven, Permira and Mid Europa Partners agreed to buy Naspers’s Polish online auction site Allegro for almost US$3,3bn (R46,4bn), taking on rivals such as eBay in the Eastern European country
The financial burden of Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Note7 crisis is becoming clearer, as Korea’s largest company tallies the cost of recalling and terminating production of the fire-prone smartphone. The Suwon-based
Xiaomi distributor Mobile in Africa plans to open stores in South Africa focused on promoting and selling the fast-growing Chinese smartphone brand, its head, RJ van Spaandonk, said on Thursday. Mobile in Africa, which is a sister
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan described fraud charges against him as frivolous and unfounded and said he has no intention of relinquishing his post unless President Jacob Zuma fires him. His lawyers will
Government has no intention of running a mobile network in the country, says telecommunications minister Siyabonga Cwele. Last month, cabinet approved South Africa’s new national ICT policy which seeks
The release of a report by South Africa’s graft ombudsman into the alleged influence of President Jacob Zuma’s friends, the Gupta family, in government affairs has become bogged down in the courts, with legal actions lodged to
I have become citizen number 62 of Asgardia, a new space nation dedicated to expanding peaceful exploration of space for the benefit of humanity. It is led by Igor Ashurbeyli, chairman of Unesco’s Science of Space
Seventeen years ago, an Indian man from New Delhi mesmerised the technology departments of global corporations with a doomsday story many times more puffed up than the luxuriant crop of hair he sported. The latter was a wig, and the former
President Jacob Zuma has applied for an interdict on the publication of a report by the nation’s graft ombudsman on the alleged influence of the Gupta family in government affairs, public protector Thuli Madonsela said. “He has applied