Cellphone giant Vodacom will reduce its tariffs next month.

South African Communist Party deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin has urged the party to "guard against the opportunistic appropriation of nationalisation".

A task team convened to look into the "bedevilled" affairs of the SABC has found some progress has been made in its turnaround strategy, Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda says.

A task team report on the state-owned satellite company Sentech had not explicitly recommended axing its chief executive officer and board, Communication Minister Siphiwe Nyanda says.

A proposed agreement by mobile operators to reduce interconnection rates is "legally indefensible" and "wrong in law".

Mobile phone giant MTN does not live up to the spirit of its employment equity plan.

According to a website report, Fifa expects to make a marginal loss on the 2010 World Cup, but it's a much happier picture than the one Fifa painted eight months ago.

The National Credit Regulator received 1,429 applicants for debt counselling in just the first two days of February 2010, Debtbusters notes, an indication that the average South African consumer's debt problems are only getting worse.

Economic transformation "has been frustratingly slow" and has favoured the few, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said in Pretoria on Thursday.

South Africa's economic confidence improved in January, bolstered by growing optimism the economy will rebound this year.

Toyota Motor said it was staring at a $2 billion (R15 billion) hit from a global safety recall.

The JSE opened firmly in the red on Thursday amid negative global sentiment.

SABMiller says that the High Court of Justice in England and Wales has sanctioned the Scheme of Arrangement to give effect to the group's proposed broad-based black economic empowerment transaction in South Africa.

Gold Fields says it is in talks with representative trade unions over the introduction of a six day work week to avoid retrenchments.

The rand held firm on Thursday morning as the euro came off against the dollar.

Despite headline earnings being down 53% for the six months ended December 2009, Jasco says it enters the next six months with all its divisions in a profitable position.

The country's water demand will exceed supply by 2025.

President Barack Obama has vowed to "get much tougher" with China on trade and currency rules to ensure US goods do not face a competitive disadvantage, adding to a range of issues weighing on relations.

Gold Fields wants to add a day to its working week to stem gold losses from safety stoppages and holiday breaks as it expects a five percent decline in output.

A new furore has erupted as AIG revealed plans to pay $100m in bonuses a year after similar payments by the bailed-out insurance giant ignited a political firestorm.

Packaging company Nampak yesterday named Tito Mboweni as non-executive chairman from June.

The Competition Tribunal yesterday slapped a R195.7-million fine on Pioneer Foods for participating in a bread price-fixing cartel and has ordered the company not to do it again.