Dark Fibre Africa expands fibre network coverage through property development

Fibre network operator Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) is shifting its expansion focus to new commercial and residential property developments to extend coverage and speed up service deployment, and has formed an in-house team of property industry experts for this purpose. Over the past year, DFA completed the first phase of a nationwide network upgrade at a cost of more than R800 million. Remgro subsidiary Maziv’s revenue for the 12 months ended March 2026 rose 8.9% to R3 billion, while operating profit increased 10.1% to R1.243 billion.