The continent’s regional regulators are building frameworks to simplify cross-border compliance and national authorities are adapting laws to support these ambitions
Experts say a Vodacom-Maziv marriage would make the entity dominant in the market
Often, owners of struggling businesses agree gladly to being bought out
How land reform will be achieved in South Africa continues to limit near-term investment
South Africa has been abuzz with the potential consequences of merging Mango Airlines with SA Express and South African Airways
Smaller firms are concerned that SABMiller’s merger with a Coca-Cola division to form CCBSA may freeze them out of shelf space at retailers.
The past decade has been a period of unprecedented growth for Africa.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has announced that it has signed a conditional merger with corporate consultancy group Booz & Co.
Latest figures show investors are positive about doing business on the continent.
The ministers of health and higher education held a press briefing on Thursday to explain remarks by Julius Malema regarding Medunsa.
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/ 30 September 2009
Bharti Airtel said late on Wednesday it and MTN had called off tie-up talks because the SA government would not accept the deal in its current form.
The government seems set to oppose a possible merger between mining giants Anglo American and Xstrata, it emerged on Tuesday.
The Competition Tribunal on Wednesday said it had approved the merger of Aquarius Platinum, Rustenburg Platinum Mines and First Platinum.
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/ 25 February 2009
The Competition Tribunal on Wednesday unconditionally approved the merger between cellphone companies Vodacom and Vodafone.
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/ 16 February 2009
The Competition Commission has recommended the approval of the proposed large merger between Vodafone and Vodacom, it said on Monday.
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/ 30 January 2009
Merger assimilated a mish-mash of student cultures, staff work ethics, academic standards and disparate infrastructure.
The Competition Tribunal on Thursday unconditionally approved cellphone operator MTN’s acquisition of a 69,4% stake in Verizon SA.
Cellphone operator MTN said on Thursday that its acquisition of Verizon SA won’t thwart competition.
Altech Technologies, which was granted the right to intervene in the MTN and Verizon merger hearings, has withdrawn its intervention in the matter.
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/ 20 October 2008
Roy du Pré argues that universities of technology have the flexibility to meet the changing demands of industry .
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/ 16 September 2008
Failed universities mergers are being examined for possible solutions, according to ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe.
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/ 3 September 2008
Rio Tinto has a dual listing in Sydney and a 14,99% stake in London would equate to around 11% in the entire group.
South Africa’s Competition Tribunal on Thursday unconditionally approved the merger between the Absa Group and Woolworths Financial Services.