Fees paid to nonexecutive directors at JSE-listed companies have increased moderately, auditing firm PwC said on Thursday. “The median chairperson fee across the entire JSE has risen by 7,1% to R422 000,” PwC’s Southern Africa human resources
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Mobile gaming is expected to account for the lion’s share of growth in the South African videogame market in coming years, while PC gaming will stagnate and online gaming will fall behind growth globally due to South Africa’s comparatively costly and slow Internet access
South Africa’s online advertising industry can look forward to substantial growth in coming years thanks in part to cheaper smartphones and data. This is according to PwC’s latest annual “South African Entertainment and Media Outlook” report. Unsurprisingly
Although South Africa’s entertainment and media spending is expected to experience compound annual growth of 10,9% between now and 2017 – well above the global average of 5,6% – sales of physical books and music will remain flat at 0,4%, new research from PwC shows
It is not clear why the legal battle between Nkosana Makate, the man who claims he invented the “Please call me” service, and telecoms giant Vodacom has so captured the imagination of the South African public. Perhaps it is because of the classic David and Goliath proportions of the saga, or perhaps it is a
MTN South Africa said on Friday that it had been “vindicated” by the Johannesburg labour court, which had found “no merit” to claims by a former employee, Violet Magagane, that she was retrenched for exposing allged corruption at the cellphone network operator. Magagane had said she
As their markets become saturated and as lower-margin data overtakes voice as the primary traffic on their networks, mobile operators are going to have to change dramatically, altering their operating models, cutting costs and completely reshaping their cultures, if they’re to continue to survive, let
The proposed tightening of the VAT net on digital goods could lead to a price increase for consumers and an administrative burden for the foreign suppliers of such goods. Foreign businesses and providers of digital goods in South Africa will be required
It’s not all bad news for Telkom. That’s if new forecasts published by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) are correct. PwC expects wired broadband to expand faster than mobile broadband over the next five years, growing at a compound annual rate of 32,8%. “The wired broadband access market is
Piracy will remain a problem for entertainment and media companies until barriers to access by consumers are removed and it until becomes more convenient for customers to pay for content than copy it. Furthermore, media companies need