Johann Rupert and Koos Bekker struck a deal to save Vodacom and MTN

One of the largest private solar power farms in SA being built in under a year | MTN has formed a new company | Windows update broke printing, and Apple to announce new iPhone launch South Africa's richest man, Johann Rupert, and Naspers stalwart Koos Bekker cut a deal with Cyril Ramaphosa in the early 1990s to prevent Vodacom and MTN from being smothered in their cribs.

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