One of South Africa’s largest church groups, Shepherd Bushiri Ministries International, which claims to have about 2m followers, is launching a mobile virtual network operator to offer congregants voice and data
It’s podcast time! Your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg gather around the mic to discuss the week’s biggest local and international tech news. This week, they chat about South Africa’s never-ending digital
The Huffington Post, the left-leaning American news aggregator and blog site, is to be launched in South Africa in partnership with Naspers subsidiary Media24. The site will go live in November. The partnership was announced on Friday
Another delay has hit South Africa’s digital broadcast migration project as the agency behind the roll-out of set-top boxes has temporarily halted production of these devices. Set-top boxes decode digital signals for analogue television sets and
The fundamental problem confronting South Africa today is a political culture that is defective and out of kilter with the needs of the majority of the people. Innovative thinking about transforming the economy is stunted by political
It may seem that investors in MTN Zakhele, MTN’s black economic empowerment scheme, are pricing in risk given the sell-off leading up to the scheme’s expiry in November. Over the past month, the share price of
Apple’s third-quarter rally is unwelcome news to the unusually large swath of investors who have been giving up on the stock. Shares of the iPhone maker have jumped 21% this quarter, trouncing the S&P 500 Index. At the same time, the number
Communications minister Faith Muthambi was chastised during a portfolio committee meeting on Thursday about the delays in government’s roll-out of digital migration. “Your management of this process is found wanting,” said
Four months after rival Vodacom South Africa pulled the plug on its mobile payments platform M-Pesa, MTN South Africa is doing the same with its Mobile Money offering. The move by MTN comes just two weeks after news emerged that
Alleged attempts to remove finance minister Pravin Gordhan from office have left AngloGold Ashanti chairman Sipho Pityana feeling jittery. “I lose sleep about attempts to remove minister