A wage agreement between government and civil servants for the 2021/2022 fiscal year will cost about R20-billion, national treasury said on Wednesday.
Author: Agency Staff
A few nights ago, cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun announced on Twitter that he had paid half-a-million dollars for a picture of a rock with laser eyes. It wasn’t even a good picture of a rock.
South Africa’s headline unemployment rate hit a record high of 34.4% in the second quarter from 32.6% in the first three months of the year as businesses shed staff due to Covid-19 lockdowns.
OPay, an Africa-focused digital payment start-up founded by a Chinese entrepreneur, has secured $400-million in its latest funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, valuing it at $2-billion.
Samsung Group will invest ₩240-trillion (R3.1-trillion) in the next three years to expand its footprint in biopharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and robotics.
DiDi Global has suspended plans to expand in Europe partly because of concerns over how the Chinese ride-hailing company handles passenger data, according to a person familiar with the matter.
It was only a few weeks ago that some strategists were eyeing a possible drop to $20 000 for bitcoin, months after it had hit an all-time high near $65 000 in April. Now it’s back above $50 000. What happened?
It sounds implausible: a technology that could unleash nearly unlimited clean energy. Yet sustainable nuclear fusion, long hypothesised, took a step closer to reality this month.
South Africa has started geological mapping at the country’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) site, where it plans to…
PayPal Holdings will allow customers in the UK to buy, sell and hold bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies starting this week, the company said on Monday.