The Department of Home Affairs wants to establish an ICT portfolio management office. (Image source: 123RF) It’s another quiet week on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, as the public sector’s biggest players maintain a low profile. The Department of Home Affairs (DHA), however, bucks the trend with its request for a service provider from SITA’s RFB1183…
When wildlife TV personality Forrest Galante sat down for his monthly call with YouTube consultant Paddy Galloway, he received some bad news. No more turtles. Galante has 2.5 million YouTube subscribers. He’s been producing wildlife programming for more than a decade, including a docuseries on Animal Planet and a show on the History Channel. He…
Emma Wenani, Chief Director of Global Media Alliance, has been named among the Ascent Top 100 Career Women in Africa 2026, a recognition by Ascent Club that celebrates bold, audacious and high-impact women shaping the continent’s corporate landscape. The recognition places her among an influential group of women whose work continues to redefine leadership, excellence…
MTN group CEO and president Ralph Mupita earned almost R100 million last year. (Graphic by Nicola Mawson, with MTN images) Africa’s largest cellphone company, MTN, paid six executives R320 million in 2025, a 62% year-on-year gain across its top posts after it reversed its loss-making position in the year to December. In its recently released…
A quiet but consequential shift is underway in Africa’s economic order. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), long defined by paradox vast wealth amid deep poverty,is now projected to become sub-Saharan Africa’s fifth-largest economy in 2026. This is not speculation. Projections from the International Monetary Fund place the DRC’s GDP at around $123 billion,…
The Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) has emerged the second best performing bourse in Africa buoyed by the recent FTSE Russell reclassification of Nigeria from unclassified to Frontier market status. As of April 24, 2026, the major market indicator of Nigeria’s stock market, NGX All-Share has appreciated by 45.05 per cent in its Year-till-Date (YtD) growth,…
First all-women cohort of winners hails from Colombia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, South Korea, the UK and the US. This year’s prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize has been awarded to six grassroots environmental activists from around the world for their efforts to fight climate change and save biodiversity. For the first time since the prize was…
IT hardware, software, support and maintenance services are required for the Road Traffic Management Corporation and Natis. National Treasury’s eTenders Portal delivers a particularly dry week for the ICT sector, making way for smaller municipalities to score an entry in this edition. The slower week does allow us to pay closer attention to the Road…
A new transversal contract covers the outright purchase of PCs, computer peripherals, consumables and related services for government. Two shortened weeks result in a much quieter National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, with advertisement numbers dropping by about a third. However, the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) jumps into rescue an otherwise dull week, with its invitation…
MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita has been awarded conditional shares worth nearly R40-million under the telecommunications group’s long-running performance share plan, the company disclosed on Tuesday. In a notice to shareholders published on the JSE’s stock exchange news service, MTN said Mupita had been allocated 207 633 shares at R192.50 each…
