Earlier this month (8 July 2025), the Competition Commission announced that it had reached an agreement with Vodacom and Maziv on revised conditions that allow the parties to proceed with a merger that had been prohibited by the Competition Tribunal. Vodacom acquiring a stake in Maziv, a South African fibre infrastructure company, with the goal of creating a leading fibre provider. Initially, Vodacom planned to acquire a 30% stake, with an option to increase it to 40%.

Our next guest is concerned that these updated revisions may lead to monopoly in the telecommunications sector & make finding an affordable internet connectivity difficult especially when it comes to providers and price regulation. They also question the basis of this decision made by Competition Commission to allow this merger to take place. To tell us more about this, we are joined by...

Guest: Koketso Moeti  - Executive Director at Amandla!Mobi