240 The delivery service has been suspended for the safety of drivers. Checkers Sixty60 has been suspended in the Western Cape and parts of the Eastern Cape on Monday due to severe…
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Pressure builds on Vodacom’s South African mobile business
302 Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub A reading of Vodacom Group’s 2026 financial results shows its home market is barely growing in customer terms, that what top-line growth there is leans heavily…
Pop star sues Samsung for $15-million
214 British singer Dua Lipa. Aude Guerrucci/Reuters British pop star Dua Lipa has filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics seeking at least US$15-million in damages, accusing the South Korean tech giant of…
RAF ordered to pay R2.2m to pedestrian and slapped with punitive cost order
213 Despite binding judgments, it refused to compensate the victim because her medical aid had covered a portion of the costs. The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has been issued with a punitive…
Eskom battles widespread outages as storm batters the Cape
339 A powerful winter storm sweeping across large parts of South Africa has caused widespread power outages, with the Western Cape worst affected after the South African Weather Service issued warnings for…
Voice going the way of SMS, says Vodacom CEO
298 Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub Mobile voice revenue is following the same structural decline as SMS, Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub said in an interview on Monday – an unusually direct…
Vodacom’s fintech machine tops 100 million customers
289 Vodacom Group’s fintech business has surpassed 100 million customers for the first time, with the JSE-listed telecommunications operator reporting 103 million active financial services users in the year ended 31 March…
Where AI actually belongs in enterprise systems
271 Artificial intelligence is now firmly on the enterprise agenda. From boardrooms to product teams, organisations are exploring how AI in business can improve decision-making, automate complex processes and unlock new insights…
Naspers unit offloads stake in food giant for R6.5-billion
246 Prosus, the Naspers-controlled consumer internet group, has agreed to sell a 5% stake in German food delivery giant Delivery Hero to Aspex Management for approximately €335-million – around R6.5-billion at the…
Vodacom paid nearly twice book value for its Maziv stake
275 The detail in Vodacom Group’s full-year results announcement, released on Monday, reveals just how richly the South African mobile operator has valued its long-fought-for acquisition of a stake in Maziv –…