Visa doesn’t just think a cashless society is possible, it thinks it could even happen soon — and in Africa. Visa country manager for South Africa Mandy Lamb says the payments technology company’s strategy is to displace the “trillions of dollars worth of cash” still in use across Africa. It’s not Visa’s intention to
Former Telkom acting CEO and Cell C CEO Jeffrey Hedberg has been appointed as the new CEO of Mobilink, one of Pakistan’s largest mobile operators, parent company VimpelCom said in a statement on Friday. Hedberg succeeds Rashid Khan, who has decided to retire after almost 15 years in management positions
On Digital Media (ODM), the owner of pay-television operator StarSat (formerly TopTV), is making a more aggressive play into sports, reserving an entire channel number range to sports channels and launching a new sports
A new local application, Appetite, wants to give hungry South Africans easy access to their favourite takeaway joints, right from their smartphones. The app, which has been been in development for the past 18 months
The Mail & Guardian denied a report on Friday that it is in financial trouble, that staff were unpaid for months, and that it subsidised business interests in Zimbabwe. “The allegations in the article are completely untrue,” the newspaper’s CEO, Hoosain Karjieker, told Sapa. “We do not fund the Zimbabwe operations
Telkom has suspended its current restructuring and retrenchment process following an agreement with trade union Solidarity on Thursday, the trade union said. “This includes halting the process wherein Telkom intended to use race as a criterion for layoffs,” telecommunications spokesman Marius
The pain, it seems, is not over for former Nokia workers as their new employer, Microsoft, prepares to cut its workforce by a massive 18 000. Microsoft has not announced where all of these cuts will come from, but
Pretoria-based Desert Wolf made international headlines last month after it emerged that it had developed a drone capable of showering pepper spray on rioting crowds and claiming the technology could be used in “preventing another Marikana”, in reference to the violent protest in August 2012 where 34
A task team will be set up to tackle the establishment of new departments in government, public service and administration minister Collins Chabane said on Thursday. Addressing a media briefing before delivering his budget
The South African mobile payments space is hotting up with another contender entering the fray. FlickPay is the fifth mobile payments application to be launched in South Africa in recent months and, although it’s not
