Nhlanhla Nene named to Allan Gray board

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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

Inside Netflix’s risky bid for world domination

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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 zero-rates schools app d6 Communicator

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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

Africa’s best and worst countries to live in

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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

Inside Africa’s electricity crisis

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Afrobarometer, a pan-African, non-partisan research network, recently released a report highlighting Africa’s electricity challenges. Power shortages can hamper socioeconomic development, but they also have implications for health and education

Are banks doing enough to secure your data?

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Despite some consolidation in the African banking market, most of the banks we speak to remain confident about future opportunities on the continent. However, we have noticed security steadily making its way towards the top of the agenda for bank

Let them eat cake (but not broadband)

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There is no want for topics today that concern South Africa. Race, the economy, our president’s naked emperor tendencies – these are all important. It is, in fact, refreshing to see all that discourse. In our most cynical moments we complain how the country is going backwards

A vote for the ANC is a vote for the constitution: Zuma

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A vote for the ANC is a vote for the constitution, ANC president Jacob Zuma told a lethargic crowd, some of whom left during his speech, at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. Zuma’s address at the ANC’s manifesto launch

The emperor is naked: Malema

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The failure of the ANC and its president, Jacob Zuma, to fill the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth was a clear indication that the ANC was dead, according to Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema. He was addressing thousands of