One of MTN’s very first employees, Karel Pienaar, who has been with the telecommunications group for more than two decades and who was instrumental in the founding of the business, is stepping down. Pienaar was most recently group
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Shares in technology and media giant Naspers came under selling pressure late on Friday afternoon after it announced plans to raise as much as US$2,5bn (about R36bn) through a capital-raising exercise. Shares in Naspers were trading down by almost 4% shortly
Naspers expects headline earnings per share for the six months ended 30 September 2015 to have leapt by between 25% and 30% compared the same interim period a year ago, the media and technology group said on Friday
MultiChoice has apologised for problems that have beset its popular Catch Up service in recent weeks and has said the broadcaster is making progress in resolving them. “We apologise
Brand de Villiers has resigned from his post as CEO of the Premier Soccer League (PSL) and has taken up a post at MultiChoice. According to the PSL’s Twitter account, its chairman, Irvin Khoza, confirmed
Pay-television operator On Digital Media, which owns StarSat (formerly TopTV), has won a significant victory at communications regulator Icasa that will allow the company finally to emerge
E.tv has been granted leave to appeal by the high court in Pretoria, setting the stage for a legal showdown at the supreme court of appeal in Bloemfontein between communications minister Faith Muthambi and the free-to-air broadcaster over set-top box encryption
The Gupta-controlled Infinity Media Networks, which owns the 24-hour news channel ANN7 – broadcast on MultiChoice’s DStv pay-television platform – has applied to communications regulator
MultiChoice has announced it will begin offering Catch Up, which offers cached content and online video-on-demand services, to DStv Compact and Extra subscribers from Sunday, 1 November. Previously, it was available only on DStv premium, the most expensive of the
I can claim no special insight into the machinations at the ANC national general council. A seasoned political reporter once told me that no one knows what’s going on inside that famously broad church. And she was known for her ANC insight and contacts. Even Thabo Mbeki, despite his hold over