The telecommunications sector in South Africa is among the continent’s most developed. Telkom, the country’s former monopoly and fixed-line incumbent, is Africa’s largest telecommunications operator, competing alongside a number of heavyweight home-grown mobile providers. As in most sophisticated markets, the sector tends toward encouraging data-...
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Post-World Cup inertia still lingers in South Africa. While the FIFA event was seen as an overwhelming success by organisers and the domestic tourism body, the country has, thus far, been unable to replicate or sustain the level of visitors the international football tournament brought to the country. The industry has not been helped by the global...
Infrastructure development has been placed at the heart of South Africa’s new economic transformation plan. For the National Planning Commission, it is seen as a silver bullet that will get the economy moving once again and create jobs in a country that historically suffers from chronic unemployment. However, the response thus far has been muted. It...
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