In the latest telecommunications market transaction, Afrihost has announced that MTN will be purchasing a 50% stake in the internet service provider. As yet, the sum has not been disclosed, and neither MTN nor Afrihost have been available to comment. However, in a novel move of light-hearted candour, CEO of Afrihost, Gian Visser, sent a … Read more
By Lucy Ferreira Jacob Zuma’s second inauguration as president of South Africa was a swank affair with flying displays and an array of South Africa’s best efforts at haute couture. Perhaps it even elicited the rays of hope for a presidential term that will actually deliver something on its promises. This glow has been lengthened … Read more
It’s been my privilege to engage freely and often with Stafford Masie and the subject of much of this discussion, former FNB CEO Michael Jordaan. Stafford’s journey from modest surroundings in Eldorado Park near Johannesburg to rubbing shoulders with tech giants Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and, of course, his immediate boss … Read more
Cell-C CEO Alan Knott-Craig came to the studio to chat about the first R200m allocation of a further  $350m cash injection by his company’s parent Saudi Oger. We ended up chatting about the reason why he’s been in the news so much of late. Knott-Craig, founder and former CEO of Vodacom, has been sucked into … Read more
I first encountered Dimension Data in 1987 when Jeremy Ord’s then three year old networking business joined the JSE’s new listings boom. Since then I’ve been an interested observer (and grateful participant in a couple of DiData Pro-Ams) as the business became a modern day Icarus, surging to a London Listing and a string of … Read more