business in Africa
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Vodacom m-pesa: ‘Mobilising’ Cash in a Challenging Market
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In March 2012, Mark Taylor, managing executive for Online and Vodacom m-pesa, reflected on the 19 months since the launch in South Africa of m-pesa, Vodacom’s mobile payment platform.
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Calum McCracken and NGN Telecoms: The Power of Perseverance
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In September 2014, Calum McCracken, chief executive officer (CEO) of Next Generation Network Telecommunications (Pty) Ltd (NGN Telecoms), met with his partners to discuss the company’s Kenyan dilemma.
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Dimension Data in Africa: Making BEE Work
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In September 2012, IT firm Dimension Data paid out R1.26 billion to the various participants in a broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) deal that the company had signed eight years earlier.
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The Expansion of Choppies into Africa
50,00 $CASE STUDY. On a Saturday morning in early October 2015, Choppies chief executive officer (CEO), Ramachandran Ottapathu, made his weekly visit to a Choppies store.
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MTN in Nigeria: Sailing Too Close to the Wind?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In July 2016, MTN’s newly appointed CEO, Rob Shuter, was considering how it was possible that the company had been fined a mammoth US$5.2 billion (R78 billion) by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in October 2015.
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Game: Competing in Africa’s Playing Fields
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In 2007, Jan Potgieter, chief executive of Massdiscounters (a division of Massmart), had steered Game, one of its general merchandise discounters, into investing far more vigorously in Africa.
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