Bob van Dijk received almost R1.9-billion in salary, incentives, and vested share options and shares appreciation rights in the year to March 2019, a regulatory filing published on Friday shows.
A finding by the commission last week regarding MTN’s empowerment scheme’s contravention of the B-BBEE Act will have wide implications for similar schemes operated by other listed companies.
When Walmart paid $16-billion for control of India’s e-commerce pioneer Flipkart Online Services from investors, including Naspers, last year, the US retail giant got a little-noticed digital payments subsidiary as part of the deal.
Naspers’s global fintech company, PayU, is expanding into Southeast Asia with the acquisition of Singapore-based Red Dot Payment.
A little more than 100 years ago, Naspers was created by white South Africans to produce a Dutch-language newspaper. Now the continent’s biggest company, Naspers just named its first woman, and first black person, as CEO.
Naspers has appointed Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa as CEO of its South Africa business. It’s a newly created executive position, and Mahanyele-Dabengwa will report directly to CEO Bob van Dijk.
VALR.com will offer ether-rand trading from next week as the cryptocurrency exchange, backed by former FNB CEO Michael Jordaan, ramps up its efforts to tackle Naspers-backed market leader Luno.
TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod spoke to Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk about the group’s acquisition, through Naspers Foundry, of a stake in SweepSouth, the controversy over the group’s dual shareholding structure, and more.
Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk believes cryptocurrencies could have a huge and positive impact on societies by allowing for frictionless and costless transfer of value between people.
In the podcast this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the looming layoffs at MultiChoice and what precipitated the move.