Author: Duncan McLeod

South Africans will spend R159-billion online this year, but the growth rate is set to fall from 35.4% to 22.5%.

Teraco used 399GWh of electricity in 2025, three times its 2021 figure, with a new solar facility now due to come online next year.

Woolworths grew online food sales 18.3% while Checkers Sixty60 managed 34.7% off a far larger base.

Shoprite has closed its R&A Cellular deal, taking 51% of the point-of-sale platform serving spaza shops.

Wiocc Group is raising $300-million from AFC and Saudi Arabia’s Vision Invest, its biggest round yet.

Eskom’s profit more than doubled to R30.3-billion, but electricity sales fell 6.2% and municipal arrears passed R111-billion.

Electricity theft and unrecognised municipal revenue together exceed the utility’s entire annual profit.

Eskom has confirmed R36.8-billion of irregular expenditure relating to prior years, restated outside the financial statements.

Eskom and BLSA now say they agree on the independent transmission operator, two months after a public falling-out.

South African talk radio is now searchable. Shaun Trennery built the platform without writing a line of code himself.