THE COMPANY: MTN is a multinational telecommunications company, headquartered in South Africa, with operations in 21 countries across Africa and the Middle East. MTN’s offerings include voice services via 2G or GSM networks and data through 3G networks.
THE COMPANY: Mr. Price is a South African value fashion retailer, selling mainly own-brand products. The company is one of the nation’s largest clothing retailers and is made up of an apparel division and a home division. The apparel division contributes 72% of group sales and 83% of profits. Mr. Price is...
THE COMPANY: Kumba is a listed iron ore miner and a 65% subsidiary of global diversified miner Anglo American, benefitting from group procurement and mine optimisation strategies, for example. Kumba was formed by a demerger in 2001 from South African integrated steel company Iscor and a subsequent...
In March 2010 Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, announced that her department was working on a new strategy framework for the country’s foreign policy. This in itself was not novel; the Department of Foreign Affairs – renamed the Department of International Relations and Cooperation in 2007...
Two important changes were announced in late 2011 that are likely to boost activity on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE): the reclassification of foreign-domiciled companies on the JSE as local listings and a cross-listing initiative with an alliance of exchanges from the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) emerging market bloc. As these initiatives are carried...
Just 18 years ago South Africa was a divided state, emerging from the shadow of apartheid and decades of political isolation to become Africa’s newest democracy. The years since have been marked by both struggle and triumph. While the hosting of the FIFA World Cup in 2010 was a spectacular demonstration of national progress, South Africa faces many...
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