135 But the IDC and dtic must ‘come to the party’ and Vision is not interested in Tongaat ‘for a quick buck’ The Vision Group led by South African businessman Robert Gumede…
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Your Airbnb is empty half the year
125 AirhostSwap is a South African platform tackling one of the biggest problems in the short-term rental sector: unbooked nights that drag down annual average occupancy rates, especially during the low season….
Mitel receives 2025 Enterprise Collaboration Product of the Year award
125 Mitel, a global leader in business communications, has announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded Mitel CX as a 2025 Enterprise Collaboration Product of the Year award winner….
Optasia beats IPO guidance in maiden results as lending scales
118 Salvador Anglada Optasia, the fintech that listed on the JSE in November, has delivered a set of maiden annual results that comfortably exceed the guidance it gave investors at the time…
MTN’s mobile money machine
128 MTN Group’s fintech business now processes more than half a trillion dollars in annual transaction value, underscoring the scale of mobile financial services on the African continent and the growing strategic…
MTN lines up partners for African AI data centre play
130 MTN Group is pushing ahead with plans to build AI-enabled data centres in South Africa and Nigeria as part of a broader bet that the continent’s digital infrastructure needs are about…
Why managing your Cisco Enterprise Agreement matters more than signing it
231 Software complexity is quietly eroding margins across the channel. Multiple contracts, different renewal dates, disconnected architectures, pricing uncertainty and limited visibility into consumption — for many organisations and partners, this is…
West Africa delivers big for MTN Group
145 MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita MTN Group has reported a sharp recovery in earnings for the year to December 2025, swinging from a loss to a profit as a dramatic turnaround…
Shoprite takes majority stake in R&A Cellular
137 Shoprite Group has acquired a majority stake in R&A Cellular, a point-of-sale platform serving South Africa’s informal retail sector, as part of a push to extend its financial services offering beyond…
JSE plunge sees over R2 trillion wiped out
144 Emerging market volatility peaks amid the Middle East crisis, which saw Brent crude jump almost 25% to $115 a barrel overnight from Sunday. South Africa’s main bourse, the Sandton-based Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE),…