Vodafone has warned that Britain’s desire to lead the world in 5G technology will face a big blow if it decides to remove Huawei Technologies from the country’s telecoms infrastructure.
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South African blockchain-based renewable energy start-up Sun Exchange has raised R50-million from a company backed by one of the country’s richest businessmen.
Life Healthcare said on Tuesday that its Southern African operation was hit by a cyberattack affecting its admissions systems, business processing systems and e-mail servers.
TSMC hopes to keep supplying Huawei Technologies but is confident its other customers can replace any business lost because of tightening US curbs on China’s largest tech company.
South Africa’s programme to halt the coronavirus is being thwarted by a global shortage of tests and a lack of capacity to process those that have been administered.
The Trump administration has fired multiple salvos against Huawei since the start of a campaign to derail China’s technological ascendancy. The latest blow threatens to cripple the country’s tech champion.
Eskom has demanded that consultancy PwC repay it R95-million, alleging the money was disbursed under an invalid contract. PwC has denied the allegation.
Ghana will implement a set of policies to reduce the dominance of MTN in the country’s telecommunications market, the government has said in a statement.
South African banks face the steepest earnings slump in half a century – with some posting losses – as measures to curb the coronavirus drag the economy deeper into recession.
Asset manager Ninety One has launched a R10-billion fund, in partnership with a private equity firm, that will target investments in South African businesses struggling due to the coronavirus outbreak.