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Sifiso Dabengwa to be buried in South Africa
Zimbabwean-born South African corporate executive Raymond Sifiso Dabengwa, former CEO of MTN Group and Eskom board member, will be laid to rest in Johannesburg on Saturday. Dabengwa, 66, passed away o...Published: 04 Sep 2024 at 15:09hrs | 2309 | by Staff reporter
Sifiso Dabengwa dies
Zimbabwean-born South African corporate executive Raymond Sifiso Dabengwa, former president and CEO of telecoms giant MTN Group and a board member of Eskom, has passed away at the age of 66.Da...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 15:52hrs | 6603 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC has not learnt from history
In 2018, ANC chose Cyril Ramaphosa as President because they believed that white capital liked him and thus he would attract western investment into the country. However, things did not quite go accor...Published: 14 Jun 2024 at 13:23hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
EFF shutdown knocks the rand
The JSE was lifted by rand hedges and precious metals miners on Monday, amid global jitters over recent banking crises abroad, with the rand showing some pressure. This was as the EFF pressed ahead wi...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 14:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Africanise the law and land
In Mzansi, most citizens can only own real estate when they are dead - their graves and tombstones if they can afford one. From the living majority, they become the silent majority.Throughout ...Published: 27 Jul 2022 at 19:29hrs | 1 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
SA companies caught in Russia-Ukraine crossfire
JSE counters with even a remote connection to the Russia-Ukraine conflict have taken a pounding in the past week as gun-shy investors decided they were not worth the risk.Leading the fall was ...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's radical policy shift blew away US$500m potential revenue'
RADICAL policy shifts a year into President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration have wiped a staggering US$500 million in potential investments out of Zimbabwe, new data predicting an escalation of he...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa net worth jumps 125%
The net worth of Zimbabwe's telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa, who has recently been appointed to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation board, has surged 125 percent to US$2.7 billion (R41.3 billion), F...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa ranked 10th and US$100m richer
Africa's billionaires are richer than they have been in years, despite the global pandemic. As a group, the continent's 18 billionaires are worth an estimated $84.9 billion - a 15% increase from twelv...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 17:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Africa's future is being sold out even as we speak
Even if one disagrees with their policies, one must recognise that European policies towards Africa and Asia were guided and designed by deep thinkers in their societies.African leaders today ...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Dabengwa funded Ramaphosa's campaign with R500 000
Former MTN group CEO and Eskom board member Sifiso Dabengwa funded the South Africa President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa's campaign with a whopping R500 000. President Ramaphosa is accused of be...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 10:38hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dabengwa gets top post in South Africa
South African Media reported on Wednesday that Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa would be leading the operations of Multimedia giant Naspers in South Africa. The position has been newly created and sh...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 20:08hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
TelOne launches Video on demand entertainment service
TelOne has launched a new video-on-demand video entertainment platform called DEOD, offering videos, music, concert tickets, and sports betting.The services include streaming services like Nas...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 10:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa's customer experience experts descend on Cape Town
Cape Town, July 27, 2018: Africa's top customer experience experts are gathering Cape Town for the 7th annual Customer Experience Management Africa Summit, held at the Cape Town International Conventi...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Agencies
Watch free SuperSport channels for next 18 days
MultiChoice is opening its entire set of SuperSport channels for lower-tiered DStv subscribers in South Africa, as well as in other African countries, for 18 days between 13 and 31 July.While ...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 13:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Naspers to raise up to $11bn by trimming Tencent stake
Naspers NPNJn.J is cutting its stake in lucrative Chinese investment Tencent 0700.HK by as much as 2 percent in a deal that could net the South African media and e-commerce group up to $11 billion....Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 12:46hrs | | by Reuters
Zimbabwe's first $ billionaire
Telecom tycoon Strive Masiyiwa has become Zimbabwe's first billionaire.According to a report by Forbes, Masiyiwa, 57 is now worth $1.7 billion. Masiyiwa controls Econet Group, a Zimbabwe-liste...Published: 11 Jan 2018 at 05:39hrs | | by Forbes
Steinhoff corporate scandal lays bare South Africa's race relations
South Africans are fond of debating whether public or private sector failings are the bigger problem. It does not take too long to realise that they are really talking about race.This is evide...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 09:43hrs | | by Steven Friedman
DStv Zimbabwe should accept part payment in bond notes
Multichoice Zimbabwe should accept part payment in bond notes, WRITES Leonard Sengere in ...Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 08:17hrs | | by Leonard Sengere
Kwese vs DStv: Can the new challenger triumph?
Last week's decision by Zimbabwe's High Court to give Kwese the go ahead to commence its operations in Zimbabwe served not only as formal announcement of the entry of a new player on the scene, but al...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court withholds ruling on Kwese TV
The High Court yesterday withheld ruling on whether an application by Econet Group's pay television service, Kwese TV, in which it is challenging the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) over an o...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Meet Southern Africa's billionaires
There are 11 billionaires from the Sadc region on this year's Forbes list of 25 billionaires on the African continent.The list, released in March, showed that Mohammed Dewji of Tanzania is sti...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 08:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
How Apartheid system colluded with 'journalists, spies and bankers'
DURBAN - Apartheid's legacy is still affecting South Africa and the local media, a discussion held on the sidelines of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-Ifra) conference bei...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 20:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
DStv parent eyes Zimbabwe mobile firms
Africa's most valuable company, Naspers which owns MultiChoice, has set its eyes on partnering with Zimbabwe's mobile telephone firms to boost its video-on-demand business.This comes as th...Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 14:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa's Econet secures billions in funding
Econet Wireless unit Liquid Telecom has secured US$300m (about R4,3bn) to help fund expansion in Africa and its R6,5bn acquisition of Neotel.Standard Bank is arranging the syndicated loan ...Published: 18 Nov 2016 at 08:28hrs | | by Loni Prinsloo and Manuel Baigorri
Kenyan journalist scoops African Growth Story Award at Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism
(Johannesburg, 10 June 2016) Mr Allan Odhiambo of Kenya's Business Daily newspaper is the winner of the African Growth Story Award in the 2015 Sanlam Awards fo...Published: 10 Jun 2016 at 18:06hrs | | by Agencies
No DStv price hikes for Zimbabwe
DStv subscribers in the rest of Africa and Zimbabwe will not see a price hike when MultiChoice increases the subscription fees of packages in South Africa on 1 April.Unless there are unexp...Published: 18 Mar 2016 at 14:52hrs | | by Staff reporetr
No Plagiarism, says Media24
Media24 denied yesterday that it plagiarised seven stories by Caxton's online business news services, Moneyweb."There is no copyright or exclusivity in news items. No copyright exists on fact...Published: 12 Dec 2013 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Sapa
MultiChoice raises DStv prices
MultiChoice is again increasing the monthly subscription fees for DStv subscribers from 1 April for the various bouquets, with the DStv Premium bouquet which features the most TV channels and high def...Published: 08 Mar 2013 at 10:53hrs | | by Channel24
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