Fees paid to nonexecutive directors at JSE-listed companies have increased moderately, auditing firm PwC said on Thursday. “The median chairperson fee across the entire JSE has risen by 7,1% to R422 000,” PwC’s Southern Africa human resources

The disciplinary hearing involving suspended Telkom chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte will begin in Johannesburg tomorrow, Thursday, the telecommunications operator has said in a statement. “This disciplinary hearing is the outcome of a process that

A Johannesburg-based start-up, SA Cardiosynthetics, has set itself the goal of providing heart-valve replacements to emerging markets that do not require the long-term administration of medication normally needed after this type of procedure. Co-founder Murray Legg explains that

Communications minister Yunus Carrim has been given a mixed report card by the Democratic Alliance in its analysis of the performance of cabinet ministers over the past year. Carrim has been given a “C” by the opposition political party for “attempting, with

President Jacob Zuma has scored another “F” on the 2013 cabinet report card released by the Democratic Alliance and the Independent Democrats on Wednesday. The opposition party releases its score card for cabinet members annually

JSE-listed Altron, fresh from buying out minority shareholders in subsidiary Altech and delisting it from the stock exchange, has radically overhauled its corporate identity. The move comes after Altron, which was founded in 1965 by telecommunications engineer

Johannesburg- and London-listed technology group Datatec has named its chief financial officer, Rob Evans, as its new operations director. He will take on the new role with effect from 1 June. Evans will be replaced in the finance role by Jurgens Myburgh, who will join Datatec

Suspended Telkom chief financial officer Jacques Schindehütte has a “fiduciary duty” to repay R6m he was loaned by the company so that he could buy shares. The telecommunications operator says in a statement that the loan was granted in a manner that

Caxton sold about R100m of shares in Times Media Group between June and December last year, it was reported on Tuesday. According to Business Day, Caxton bought a significant stake in TMG from Mvelaphanda last January, when TMG was trading at less than R14

Given the upcoming Protection of Personal Information (Popi) Act, retailers have to be prepared to deal with customers’ questions about the type and amount of personal information that they are collecting, why they are collecting it and how they intend to protect it against abuse