Telkom released its mid-year financial results on Wednesday — and it wasn’t pretty. Revenue was down 0.7% to R21 billion, mobile service revenue was down 0.7% to R8.78 billion, fixed service revenue was down 9.8% to R6.28 billion, and headline earnings per share was down 52%. Although the company’s earnings took a hammering compared to last year’s April–September period, its subscriber numbers and network growth were solid. Mobile subscribers increased by almost 10%, fixed broadband subscribers stabilised at around 562,000, and its fibre-to-the-home network grew by well over 30%. Telkom’s wholesale and networks subsidiary Openserve increased the number of homes…
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Three of the Top 10 Most Wanted fugitives and sex offenders in Texas were arrested over the past week, according to the state’s Department of Public Safety.A Tuesday news release from the agency said all three arrests took place between Nov. 15 and Nov. 17.Fugitive Julian Murillo was arrested Nov. 15 in California while sex offenders Catarino Chavez III and Daniel Munoz were both arrested on Nov. 17 in Dallas and San Antonio, respectively.Texas DPS said Murillo’s capture came after a tip made to Texas Crime Stoppers, so a reward of up to $5,000 will be paid out to the…
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettySOUTHERN ENGLAND—After a string of Russian defeats in the war, U.K. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace is urging Ukraine to “keep up the pressure, keep up the momentum” and continue their rapid-fire attacks on Vladimir Putin’s forces through the winter months.“Given the advantage the Ukrainians have in equipment training and quality of their personnel against the demoralized, poorly trained, poorly equipped Russians, it would be in the Ukraine’s interest to maintain momentum through the winter,” Wallace said. “They have 300,000 pieces of arctic warfare kit, from the international community”—a crucial requirement for any winter offensive.Wallace…
Brian Waswani Odhiambo How we made it in Africa asked Lagos-based Brian Waswani Odhiambo, a partner at venture capital firm Novastar Ventures, to highlight the verticals within West Africa’s tech industry that excite him most from an investment perspective. Here is his response. 1. Fintech / embedded finance Apart from the sheer size of the market opportunity in financial services across Africa, fintech is also an enabler for many other products and services. Payments, credit, insurance and remittances are all key capabilities that others can leverage to increase access and affordability for the end customers. Without the ability to collect…
La Rochelle coach Ronan O’Gara has been suspended for 10 weeks for “harming the best interests of rugby”, the French rugby union league (LNR) said on Wednesday. The statement did not specify when the incident occurred but the only match the former Ireland flyhalf had coached since completing a six-week ban for abusing a referee was against Brive on November 5. ALSO READ: World Rugby ban Rassie Erasmus for tweets, criticising officials This time he faced a disciplinary panel that, unusually, contained representatives of both the LNR and the French Rugby Federation (FFR). He was cited for remarks criticising the…
Now that we’re well into November, it’s definitely time to start shopping for your holiday gifts. We gathered up our favorite holiday gifts for men, women and teens — and included some new Black Friday deals too. These are top-rated, editor-beloved gifts that are sure to make this holiday season even brighter. Need more ideas? Check out our favorite Amazon gifts, Nordstrom gifts, ultra-practical gifts, travel gifts and beauty gifts. CNN Underscored Best Tested Underscored readers haven’t been able to get enough of this eye mask ever since we named it the best sleep mask on the market. It completely blocks…
Barbed wire is a commonly used product in agriculture, transportation and other industries. The unique design and structure make this wire creation sturdy — and sometimes harmful to the touch. And on this day in history, Nov. 24, 1874, the first commercially successful barbed wire was patented by Joseph Farwell Glidden. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, NOV. 23, 1859, WESTERN OUTLAW BILLY THE KID IS BORN IN NEW YORK CITYGlidden was an American farmer originally from Charlestown, New Hampshire. After growing up in Clarendon, New York, and finishing school, he returned to his father’s farm to work, according to Britannica. A portrait of inventor…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has received convincing support for a second term, less than a month before the governing African National Congress (ANC) is set to go to its national elective congress, while one of his main detractors, former president Jacob Zuma, appears to have lost all his influence in the party. Ramaphosa received 2,037 branch nominations out of a total of 3,308, with a convincing lead over his nearest rival – former health minister Zweli Mkhize, who received 916 nominations. Your browser could not fetch this story If you are reading this message your browser has Javascript disabled. Please enable…
Ouagadougou – At least 14 people died in two separate attacks by jihadist groups in Burkina Faso’s north, including eight civilian army auxiliaries, security and local sources said on Tuesday. One of the world’s poorest countries, Burkina has been struggling with a jihadist offensive since 2015. Thousands of civilians and members of the security forces have died and around two million people have been displaced. Disgruntled army officers have carried out two coups this year in a show of anger at failures to roll back the insurgency. “Armed individuals attacked the village of Safi early on Monday,” a security source…
via InstagramMMA-fighter-turned-porn-actor Aaron Franklin Brink had an immediate reaction when he learned his 22-year-old son had been accused of slaughtering five people and injuring 18 others last weekend in a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs nightspot catering to the LGBTQ community.A defense attorney called Sunday night and told Brink, who lives in Southern California, that Anderson Lee Aldrich was under arrest for the massacre at Club Q.“They started telling me about the incident, a shooting involving multiple people,” Brink said Tuesday in an interview outside his San Diego home with CBS 8. “And then I go on to find…
Want more deals? Visit CNN Underscored’s Guide to Black Friday for wall-to-wall coverage of the best discounts to be found during the biggest shopping event of the year. Apple Black Friday deals 2022: Featured deal 12:00 PM EST November 23, 2022 Apple TV 4K (2021): The previous-gen Apple TV 4K just dropped to a lowest-ever $80, which is a $100 savings and an incredible deal on our favorite high-end streamer. Apple products rarely come cheap, which is why Black Friday is a great time to score the company’s coveted gadgets at a discount. Many of the latest AirPods, MacBooks, Apple…
By Charles Blackbeard Digitisation helps build safe, smart and sustainable operations for the future. We build locally and support globally to increase knowledge. We also have the ‘tribal knowledge’ of operators who have been around processes and equipment for decades. Now we have a new generation coming in, so digitising that knowledge is vital to pass on the baton. We have global resources and expertise we can access for remote support for our South African or African operations and services. The ABB Energy Industries Division covers oil and gas, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and power and water customers with a digital portfolio…