The Mail & Guardian, formerly the Weekly Mail, is a South African weekly newspaper and website, published by M&G Media in Johannesburg, South Africa. It focuses on political analysis, investigative reporting, Southern African news, local arts, music and popular culture. It is considered a newspaper of record for South Africa.
MTN Group Limited is a South African multinational corporation and mobile telecommunications provider. Its head office is in Johannesburg. As of December 2022 MTN recorded 289.1 million subscribers. MTN is among the largest mobile network operators in the world, and the largest in Africa.
Neotel, previously SNO Telecommunications, is the second national operator (SNO) for fixed line telecommunication services in South Africa. It was unveiled on 31 August 2006 in Kyalami in Midrand. Neotel is South Africa's first direct telecommunications competitor to the current telecommunications parastatal, Telkom.
Softline was a South African enterprise software company that existed as an independent company between 1988 and 2003 when it was acquired by the UK-based multinational corporation The Sage Group plc. Sage continued to use Softline as a brand name until 2013 when all of Softline's products were re-branded as Sage.
Dimension Data is a company specialising in information technology services. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, the company maintains operations on every inhabited continent. Dimension Data focuses on services including IT consulting, technical and support services, and managed services. The company is the official technology partner of the Tour de France, the Vuelta a España and also sponsored a team of the same name. In 2010, the company was fully acquired by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT). On 1 July 2019, all Dimension Data operations, excluding those in the Middle East and Africa, became part of NTT Ltd.
Brainstorm is a monthly trade publication for the South African technology sector published by technology media house ITWeb. The magazine was started in 2001. The founders are two Serbian migrated to South Africa, Branko Brkic and Jovan Regasek. Branko Brkic is also the founding editor of the magazine. In November 2014 Jane Steinacker was appointed the editor. Sister publication of the magazine is iWeek.
iWeek is a biweekly trade publication for the South African technology sector published by technology media house ITWeb. The magazine was started in 2005. Sipho Memela is the founding editor of iWeek. In 2010 Martin Czernowalow became the editor of the magazine. The magazine was formerly published on a weekly basis. The circulation of iWeek was 9,300 copies. Sister magazine of iWeek is Brainstorm.
The Cape Silicon Initiative or Silicon Cape is a regional ICT business networking NPO and community in the Western Cape, South Africa.
WantItAll.co.za is an online shop based in Johannesburg, South Africa that sells over 14 million products. Founded in 2006 by Justin Drennan, Ryan Drennan and Terence Murphy, the company received venture capital and investment from entrepreneurs David Frankel (entrepreneur) and Ronnie Apteker. WantItAll is ranked as the third largest web store in South Africa in terms of sales and the second largest in terms of visitors as per Alexa Internet rankings, with 200 000 customers and over 150 000 products shipped from the US to South Africa.
Business Connexion (Pty) Ltd. (BCX) is a South African-based information and communications technology (ICT) company. BCX is also listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). The ICT group has operations in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. In Africa, BCX expands to Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Zambia and Tanzania. The company also has offices in the United Kingdom. BCX is known for having the largest data center capacity in Southern Africa.
Internet Solutions (IS) is an Internet services provider for public and private sector organisations. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dimension Data Group and part of NTT.
The Local Government ICT Network, also known as LG ICT Network, is the knowledge sharing portal for information and communication technologies (ICT) in local government in South Africa. The Network is hosted by the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) and supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit. It has been publicly available since May 2011 as a dedicated online community for ICT practitioners in public service delivery and has members from almost all 278 municipalities of South Africa.
OTEL Telecoms is a South African national telecommunications company based in Boksburg. Established in 1995, the company provides Infrastructure as a service VoIP and broadband products.
Naspers Limited is a South African multinational internet, technology and multimedia holding company headquartered in Cape Town, with interests in online retail, publishing and venture capital investment. Naspers' principal shareholder is its Dutch listed investment subsidiary Prosus, which owns approximately 49% of its parent as part of a cross ownership structure.
Marthinus Johannes Strydom is a South African author, venture capitalist and private equity investor. He is the CEO and Chairman of the MJS Capital Group, a seed stage venture capital company headquartered in Pretoria.
Sybrin is a software company headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa that sells enterprise software and services to the financial services, insurance, and telecommunications industries. Sybrin implemented the first cheque truncation system in Africa, the third in the world, in Malawi.
Gian Visser is a South African entrepreneur and innovator in the internet services sector of South Africa. Visser is the current CEO and co-founder of Afrihost and has won several awards for his work in the telecommunications sector.
Xneelo (Pty) Ltd formerly Hetzner (Pty) Ltd is a web hosting company based in South Africa. It was sometimes called Hetzner South Africa to distinguish it from the German partner company Hetzner Online GmbH. The company announced a rebrand to xneelo in July 2019.
Teraco Data Environments is a carrier-, cloud- and vendor-neutral data centre provider founded by Tim Parsonson and Lex van Wyk in 2008. On 1 August 2022, Digital Realty announced that it had completed the purchase of a majority stake in Teraco, previously controlled by Berkshire Partners, Permira and a group of investors.
Central News Agency or Consolidated News Agencies, better known simply as CNA, is a South African retail chain of stationery and book stores.
