In the hours since I first sat down to write this piece, my laptop tells me the National Basketball Association has had to deny that it threatened to cancel its 2017 All-Star Game over a new

A recovery in commodity currencies and stability in the oil price boosted the rand to its highest level in four months on Tuesday. By 9am on Tuesday, the rand was trading at R14,38/US$

A 17-year-old from Somerset College in the Western Cape has achieved what is being regarded as the highest maths mark in the world. Dario Trinchero scored 100% for maths in the

Reports emerged on Monday that five telecommunications operators, including South Africa’s MTN and Telkom, have designs on a new, superfast submarine cable system connecting Africa

Demonstrating just how much of an international business it has become, JSE-listed Naspers has announced that it will in future report all of its earnings in US dollars instead of rand

Just when it appeared a sale of state-owned fibre infrastructure provider Broadband Infraco to Telkom was a fait accompli, Vodacom may now intervene and make an offer to buy the financially

Former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene has been appointed a non-executive director at Allan Gray. A spokesman at the company told City Press that Nene was appointed at a board meeting on

Netflix flexed its original programming muscle at a press event in Paris last week, bringing stars like Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Spacey and Ricky Gervais on stage to talk up its programming for the next few months. The company will spend around US$5bn

MTN South Africa has announced it will “zero-rate”, or provide free data, for access to the popular South African schools management software d6 Communicator to its 32m customers. The software, which is available for PCs and mobile

Which is the best African country for citizens to live in? A recently developed barometer has measured just that. The Good African Society Index, published in 2015, measures the quality of society in African states, exploring how