It’s not every day that I feel the need to fight with Martin Wolf. The Financial Times commentator is an eminently respectable analyst and most of the time makes good sense. However, last week he sort of lost the plot. Wolf has written that technology will do to finance
South Africa has made domestic and international commitments to climate change mitigation. But the country continues to depend on coal-fired power plants, which provide 92% of its electricity. A key challenge for the country in dealing with electricity shortages is
Nigeria’s telecommunications regulator has lifted its suspension of services to MTN, the mobile network said on Tuesday. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) suspended regulatory services to MTN last year
Metrofibre Networx, the fibre broadband company led by former Absa CEO Steve Booysen, has secured a new shareholder in the form of African Rainbow Capital (ARC), whose directors include billionaire Patrice Motsepe and former Sanlam CEO Johan van Zyl
First National Bank intends to axe 600 employee positions and close 40 retail branches as its customers shift to digital banking, according to a report. Bloomberg reported on Monday afternoon that the weak economy had also contributed to the cost-cutting
Technology group Altron expects to report a 90c/share headline loss in the year ended 29 February 2016, a deterioration from the loss of 3c/share reported a year ago, it warned shareholders after markets closed in Johannesburg on Monday. This compares to a headline
A recent spate of Sim-swap fraud cases saw First National Bank and MTN South Africa portrayed as the least trustworthy companies in their respective industries. Dozens of people have fallen victim to the Sim-swap scam, having hundreds of thousands of rand
The chairman of the South African Post Office has hit back at parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) for questioning his commitment to the state-owned entity. Simosezwe Lushaba was lambasted by Scopa for failing to attend the committee’s
Hetzner’s data centre in Midrand, north of Johannesburg, is the site for an extension of the Johannesburg Internet Exchange, Internet exchange operator INX-ZA said on Monday. It’s the first time that Jinx has been expanded beyond its
With so many shoppers and so much to offer, what are some of the emerging trends that e-commerce specialists noticed in international markets and how can they be adopted in the South African market? These are some of the international trends that, if correctly
