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New Suitor Emerges for South Africa's Vodacom

Nigeria's Globacom has emerged as a surprise possible bidder for the 50% stake in South Africa based Vodacom owned by the dominant landline telco, Telkom. Vodafone, which is the other partner in the company has long coveted taking a majority control of Vodacom and has been in talks with Telkom and other investors to boost its holding. A person familiar with the matter said that Vodafone is interested in an additional 12.5% stake in Vodacom, which would give it control with a total 62.5% interest.  more

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