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MultiChoice “cannot speak for the poor” and “has no mandate from them”. It also can’t speak for consumers, from whom it makes “super profits”. That’s the latest broadside directed against MultiChoice by the ministry of communications as the war of words between the Naspers-owned pay-television operator and communications minister

Communications minister Yunus Carrim has accused MultiChoice and its partners of trotting out the “same old, tired issues” over digital terrestrial television and labelled the pay-television broadcaster a bullying “monopoly”. He was responding to full-page Sunday newspaper advertisements in which MultiChoice

JSE-listed Africa Cellular Towers (ACT) has been placed into provisional liquidation after a major unnamed creditor was granted an order for the liquidation on Friday, 1 June. In a statement issued through the JSE’s Sens news service, ACT told shareholders on Monday that the company had been placed into

Businessman Robert Gumede on Wednesday accused Mail & Guardian journalist Sam Sole of corruption after receiving questions from the newspaper’s investigations team. Gumede, an executive chairman of the Guma Group