Chinese Internet giant Tencent and e-commerce businesses have helped lift Naspers’s revenues by 6% to US$12,2bn for the financial year ended 31 March 2016. In its full-year results, Naspers reported on Friday that its
MTN has hit back at those who have criticised it for appointing a white group CEO in the form of outgoing Vodafone executive Rob Shuter. In a lengthy statement on Friday evening, MTN defended its record
Communications regulator Icasa has promised that its planned investigation into South Africa’s pay-television industry will be comprehensive and that it will work with the competition authorities during the
Encrypted digital television set-top boxes risk being expensive for government and burdening poorer South Africans with defunct technology, says pay-TV provider MultiChoice. Set-top boxes are key to South Africa’s
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President Jacob Zuma can now have his day in court, Democratic Alliance federal chairman James Selfe has said. Zuma and the National Prosecuting Authority’s application for leave to appeal the court’s decision that he should face
South Africa’s high court denied the National Prosecuting Authority permission to appeal a finding that it erred when it decided to drop a corruption case against President Jacob Zuma seven years
South Africa’s rand lived up to its reputation as a proxy for risk sentiment, plunging by the most since 2008 against the dollar and falling to a record against the yen as investors piled into haven assets after the UK voted to
The South African Reserve Bank said the way the country’s welfare grants are paid out may have resulted in Net1 UEPS Technologies having a conflict of interest as the company has the contract to make the payments and
Bitcoin was one of the few winners out of the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, surging by as much as 13% as the decision fuelled demand for alternative assets. The digital currency jumped by 11% to US$681,68 as of 1.45pm