MTN South Africa has appointed former OpenView HD head Maxwell Nonge as chief digital officer. In the new role, Nonge will be responsible for driving the telecommunications operator’s expansion in the media space
South African President Jacob Zuma will face renewed pressure to quit after partial election results showed his ANC losing outright control of the capital, Pretoria, and Johannesburg in its worst electoral showing since
MTN Group has, with the help of “external assistance”, begun a “deep and fundamental strategic review” of its operations and processes to ensure it is operating “far more optimally given the pressure on voice
The number of subscribers on MTN South Africa’s network declined by almost 3% in the past year to 29,8m, parent MTN Group revealed in its interim financial results for the six months ended June 2016. The prepaid and
A series of public spats between South African cabinet ministers, state companies and departments are exposing divisions in the ruling party and risk spooking investors in an economy the central bank forecasts will record zero growth this year.
MTN has hit a perfect storm of bad news in the first half of its 2016 financial year, with the telecommunications group warning that it will report a basic headline loss per share of between R2,55 and R2,85 on Friday when it
It is too early to declare any kind of victory, DA Nelson Mandela Bay mayoral candidate Athol Trollip believes. But so far, the Eastern Cape party leader is happy with the results. The DA is currently in the lead in Nelson
MTN Group shares gained the most in more than five weeks after Africa’s biggest mobile phone operator booked the full value of a 330bn naira (US$1bn) fine in Nigeria, drawing a line under a 10-month saga that
The rand headed for a nine-month high against the dollar to lead global currency gains as results from South African local government elections showed a swing to the main opposition. Early counting from municipal voting
Gupta-owned television news station ANN7 fired five more journalists on Tuesday. They had taken part in protests and other demonstrations in solidarity with eight colleagues who were dismissed in June