Net1 set to buy 15% stake in Cell C

Net1 UEPS, the holding company of Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), aims to buy up 15% of Cell C, in addition to its stake in Blue Label Telecommunications which already holds 45% of the mobile telecommunications company. By 30 June 2017, Net1 expects to have bought up...

SCOPA summons absent social development minister

Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has been summoned to account to Parliament’s oversight committee SCOPA for the looming crisis in the payment of social grants. The current contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) expires at the end of March. The...

Smartphone growth set to pick up

Coming off the smartphone market’s lowest year-over-year growth of 2,5% in 2016, a new forecast from the International Data Corporation IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows worldwide smartphone shipments rebounding in 2017 and beyond. While growth...
SA students share global honours

SA students share global honours

A team of South African students has shared the top honours in a global competition to develop and recognise ICT talent around the world. The team, from the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) shared the first prize in the Huawei 2016-2017 ICT Skill Competition...

Banking CEOs are confident about 2017

Banking and capital markets CEOs are positively optimistic about their growth prospects in the year ahead; 40% are very confident that they’ll achieve revenue growth over the coming 12 months, up from 31% last year. These are the main findings from the report...

FNB scoops digital channels vote

FNB Digital Channels has been voted as the best in the country in the latest South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SACSI) survey results. Yolande Steyn, head of innovation at FNB, says: “We are honoured to receive this accolade for the fifth year running....