Albert Saporta, a director of Geneva-based investment advisory firm AIM&R has written an open letter to Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk accusing him of destroying R334bn of shareholder value since his appointment more than three years ago
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Tencent, in which South Africa’s Naspers holds a one-third stake, might want to tighten the purse strings a little. More than US$19bn in deals over the past year have added some pretty cool
Listed printing and publishing company Caxton on Wednesday presented its understanding of the Naspers control structure which, if true, would mean the end of the Keeromstraat-Nasbel voting pool that currently controls the Naspers group. Caxton argued this
Naspers investment Delivery Hero, a Berlin-based food takeout business backed by Germany’s Rocket Internet, announced plans to list on the Frankfurt stock exchange in the next few months to fund expansion in an increasingly
It’s podcast time! In this week’s episode of TalkCentral, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about telecommunications minister Siyabonga Cwele’s decision to reverse course
Government is set to back encryption in digital terrestrial television, a sharp reversal of its position on the contentious subject, following the appointment of a new communications minister last month. Last week, political journalist
The Competition Commission has recommended the approval of Internet Solutions’ (IS’s) acquisition of Internet service provider MWeb. IS said in December 2016 that it would get into the retail ISP game with its
MTN Group senior executive Stephen van Coller said his role has been changed to head of digital services at Africa’s biggest wireless operator, seven months after he joined the company as head of strategy. The former investment banking
Online retail store Takealot.com has been growing at a compound rate of 107% for the last four years as younger South Africans slowly but surely become more comfortable with online shopping. Despite this rapid growth
MTN Group’s former video-on-demand provider, Discover Digital, is starting a new South African online TV service with lender Investec, just days after its partnership with Africa’s biggest wireless operator was cancelled. The closely