Meet Jia Yueting, China’s Elon Musk

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Jia Yueting has all the trappings of a successful Chinese tech entrepreneur with global ambitions. A self-made billionaire who got his start as the IT guy at his local tax bureau, Jia’s flagship Internet video company now sports a US$15bn market capitalisation

More SABC pickets planned

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The Right2Know Campaign, along with several other groups, will picket outside the offices of the SABC in Auckland Park on Wednesday and Thursday. On Monday a number of civil society groups met to discuss upcoming protest plans against

SA votes against Internet freedoms at UN

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South Africa has joined China and Russia in voting against a United Nations resolution on the “promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet”. On Friday, the UN held a vote on the resolution, which seeks

MTN loses its group CFO

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MTN Group chief financial officer Brett Goschen is stepping down. He will leave at the end of September “to pursue other interests”, the telecommunications group said in a statement to shareholders on Monday morning.

Van Coller named as MTN M&A chief

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MTN is hiring the head Absa of Absa’s Corporate and Investment Bank as its vice-president of strategy and mergers & acquisitions. Stephen van Coller will join the telecommunications group on 1 October 2016

What’s really behind the Icasa strike

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Almost 100 staff of communications regulator Icasa went on strike on Monday over a pay and human resource policies dispute. Over 70 workers picketed outside Icasa’s head office in Sandton while another 27 staff went on strike

Vavi to take SABC to country’s top court

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Former Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi intends asking the constitutional court to reverse the SABC’s decision to stop showing footage of violent protests. “If [the SABC] hides some images away, if there are instructions to

Court battle looming over SABC censorship

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The Helen Suzman Foundation has launched an urgent court bid to stop the SABC from implementing its decision to censor reporting of protests. The application is against the SABC, its board, chief operating officer

Icasa strike in pictures

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Employees of communications regulator Icasa walked off the job on Monday over various grievances dating back to 2015 that they say have not been addressed by management. The employees have vowed