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

Altech, a subsidiary of Altron, plans to sell its Liquid Telecom stake, acquired in January 2013, to Econet Wireless, Liquid’s parent company. The 8,6% stake will be sold to Econet for US$55m, giving Liquid an implied value of $640m. Altech says it is exercising this option because the stake

Telkom’s share price touched a fresh 52-week high on Monday as investors continued to pile back into the company on the expectation that it will begin to deliver on a promised turnaround in its fortunes in 2014. In intraday trading on Monday, Telkom was trading as high as

The Democratic Alliance will break up the SABC into various commercial entities and sell these to the highest bidder should it be elected to national government after the 2014 general election. The plan to privatise the SABC’s assets is contained in the DA’s policy on information and

The ANC has promised free Wi-Fi as part its 2014 election manifesto, unveiled on Saturday in Mbombela in Mpumalanga. “Government will support and develop free Wi-Fi areas in cities, towns and rural areas,” the manifesto says. It does not provide further detail on the nature