On Wednesday morning at 2am South African time, something chronologically peculiar took place: there was an extra second between 01:59:59 and 02:00:00. This makes 1 July 2015 (or 30 June 2015

The government has sold its 13,91% stake in Vodacom to the Public Investment Corporation to help fund the R23bn allocation to Eskom, national treasury said in a statement on Wednesday. The national

Regulators’ approval of Vodacom’s R7bn bid to buy fixed-line business Neotel should worry Telkom, said an analyst. On Tuesday, the Competition Commission gave Vodacom the green light to buy Neotel for

More than a year after Vodacom made an all-cash, R7bn offer to buy Neotel, the Competition Commission has recommended that the deal be approved – but has also imposed a number of stringent conditions, including a

Uber is not concerned over Johannesburg officials mulling new regulations for the Internet ride sharing service in the city. On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that the City of Johannesburg is consulting with

Traffic officials have so far impounded over 200 Uber cars in Cape Town during 2015, according to the Internet ride-sharing service. In January, it was reported that over 60 cars were impounded in the

The first part of the new e-toll dispensation announced by government in May will come into effect on Wednesday. Account holders are the first to benefit from the new dispensation, with reduced

Strike action against South Africa’s second-biggest mobile network, MTN, has not ended yet, the company confirmed on Tuesday. Reports in weekend newspapers indicated that MTN and the

As technology progresses, so, too, must our laws. Drones, formally known as remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), have been around for at least a decade, but their application was limited and costs prohibitive

Naspers’s video entertainment and Internet businesses showed strong growth in revenue in the year to March 2015, but earnings were once again underpinned by Chinese Internet group Tencent. This as the group