MTN profit +9% as data grows but frets about 2015 headwinds

With a market cap of R385bn, mobile telecoms group MTN is one of the JSE’s giants, so the release of its financial results is always an occasion. Especially this time after concerns over its Nigerian operation – the top profit contributor – and market share reverses in its home base of South Africa affected expectations. Although the impact of the oil price crash is a serious concern for Nigerians, in SA the news is more encouraging. Click here for the MTN’s full SENS report. – AH

Anthea Jeffery: Small business and the BEE burden

Twenty odd years later, BEE has grown out of proportion and deviated from its original purpose – to empower those who were historically disadvantaged – and rather ensures that not only is our society drifting further and further from its constitutional commitment to non-racialism, but too continues to create a gap between the top earners and the rest of the South African population.

MMI merger settles, seeking opportunities in India

With the recent decline of the local equity market, MMI’s total earnings have been negatively impacted, with the company now shifting focus onto cost-saving initiatives.

Alec Hogg: Saving heartache by considering the greener grass paradox

What is it about human beings that makes us believe the grass is greener on the other side of our fence? Over the years Alec Hogg has seen otherwise rational people get into an emotional tailspin over something so far out of their control it might as well be happening on the moon.

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