Dimension Data Middle East & Africa chairman Andile Ngcaba is reinvesting all of his proceeds from the black economic empowerment (BEE) deal he struck with the company in 2004 now that it has vested. The total value of the transaction

The share price of JSE-listed technology group Gijima soared by more than 12% on Wednesday morning after it told shareholders it was in talks to dispose of its mining and consulting businesses, housed under the MineRP division, to a consortium led by RMB Private Equity subsidiary RMB Corvest

Telkom plans to expand into a range of new value-added product areas in an effort to offset the declining margins in its traditional business of providing bandwidth and connectivity. At the same time, it is making progress with its plans to offer

Local-loop unbundling, the regulatory intervention whereby third parties get access to Telkom’s physical infrastructure, is often regarded as the best solution for reducing broadband prices and growing penetration. But one Internet service provider has

Touch-screen smartphones, once an expensive rarity, now generate tens of billions of dollars of revenue every year. And Apple, a pioneer in this market, is bent on ensuring its rivals don’t profit from its original ideas. Apple’s first big case has just born

In what was clearly a very carefully worded speech delivered at the annual Satnac conference on Monday, Telkom Group CEO Nombulelo Moholi hinted there could be a solution to delivering broadband to all South Africans on a “sustainable basis” for the

A request from the Financial Services Board (FSB) has placed Rockland Investment Management, an investment firm into which Telkom’s retirement fund (TRF) put R60m, under provisional curatorship. The TRF invested about R60m with

South Africans tend to view the rest of Africa in a “very arrogant way”, taking for granted the oft-repeated statement that it is the leading economy and is therefore entitled to be the gateway for business to the continent

3MFuture Africa, a Cape Town-based technology firm that has been embroiled in a patent battle with MTN and Standard Bank over its payment card security technology, has received a ruling in its favour from the patent court in Pretoria. 3MFuture says

I remember the moment I realised that music streaming services were the future. I was at the Trans Musicale music festival in Rennes, France, in 2009 and was invited back to some French youngster’s apartment to carry on the party after the day’s