Despite the hellish time it had in Nigeria in the final quarter of its 2015 financial year – facing a fine of US$3,9bn from regulators there – telecommunications group MTN has announced it is hiking its final dividend to R8,30/share, up by 3,8% on 2014’s payout.
According to the latest ranking of the world’s richest people, published on Wednesday, Bill Gates still tops the list with a fortune of $75bn, while the net worth of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has leapt higher in the past year
When it comes to saving money and cutting costs, most financial advisers will tell you not to renew your cellphone contract and switch to prepaid. But this is not necessarily the best option if you still want the latest smartphone. According to Antony
Politicians should not run ahead of themselves and expect the wholesale or partial privatisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said in parliament on Wednesday. Responding to oral questions from
A forensic investigator has alleged an inside job at First National Bank and MTN in a Sim-swap scam that pilfers customers of hundreds of thousands of rands. Private consulting forensic
Every online shopper in South Africa knows the inconvenience of waiting impatiently for a courier to arrive. The package could arrive now, just now or now-now – that is about as precise as your information about the delivery time will be. Given that
Revolutions are, as a rule, rare and momentous processes. But across the African continent the potential is ripe for a clean energy revolution that upsets and leapfrogs the old fossil-fuel order
I’ve designed a mind experiment. If I had to invest all my savings in a single company, and had to choose either Apple, Google (now Alphabet) or Facebook, which one would it be? I would not be able
More than two thirds of South African organisations say that they have been victims of economic crime in the past 24 months. This is according to PwC’s Global Economic Crime survey. Economic crimes include misappropriation of assets, procurement fraud
The price of DStv’s most popular bouquets will rise by between 8% and 10% on 1 April 2016, with parent MultiChoice blaming the sharp devaluation in the value of the rand over the past 12 months
