79 Mauritz Kotze, Cisco business unit lead at NEC XON Following independent validation of multi-country delivery, 24×7 NOC/SOC and managed-service excellence – backed by proven references across sub-Saharan Africa – NEC XON…
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Mercedes-Benz South Africa CEO-designate resigns
86 Yves Herman/Reuters Mercedes-Benz South Africa said CEO-designate Abey Kgotle has resigned for personal reasons, less than a month before he was set to take on the role. Kgotle, who joined Mercedes-Benz…
a complete, modern security stack
119 Small and mid-sized businesses face the same sophisticated cyberthreats as large enterprises but often lack the staff, time or budget to manage complex security estates. Avast Business addresses that gap with…
Telkom on the move as Vodacom and MTN stumble at home
110 While pan-African telecommunications giants Vodacom Group and MTN Group are seeing strong growth in many of their African markets as macroeconomic conditions become more favourable, their performance in South Africa has…
Huawei Cloud named ‘carrier hybrid cloud’ leader in sub-Saharan Africa
92 At AfricaCom 2025, GlobalData, a top data analytics and consulting company, unveiled its latest industry white paper, “Unleashing the Potential of Carrier-Grade Hybrid Cloud in Sub-Saharan Africa 2025”, highlighting key insights…
too many cooks will spoil the mobile broth
61 Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has warned that a mobile market with too many players – which includes some 30 MVNOs now operating in South Africa –…
Vodacom is pumping after a powerhouse half year
90 Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub Vodacom Group has reported a robust set of interim results for the six months to September 2025, buoyed by continued revenue growth, a rebound in its…
Telkom expects massive earnings spike
111 A Telkom communications tower in Pretoria Telkom expects to more than double its headline earnings per share (Heps) in the six months to end-September 2025. Basic earnings per share (Beps), meanwhile,…
Fintech fires up Vodacom’s half-year results
90 Vodacom’s financial services business is becoming a much bigger contributor to group revenue. In its interim results for the six months to 30 September 2025, released on Monday, Vodacom reported fintech…
How South Africa’s broken Rica system fuels murder and mayhem
114 The brutal murder of Armand Swart, wrongly identified as a whistle-blower, was believed to be orchestrated through a network of phones, including a disposable “burner” phone found on suspects, according to…