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Credit and debit card fraud have declined nationally, the SA Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) said on Tuesday. Credit card fraud between January and September this year, totalling R300,6m, dropped by 18% compared to the same period

The demand for electricity is declining, Eskom finance director Paul O’Flaherty said on Tuesday. “We were predicting that sales would go down,” he said. Releasing its interim results in Johannesburg, Eskom posted electricity sales of 110 766GWh

Cable theft costs South Africa about R5bn/year, and the “war on cable theft” is being intensified, police minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Tuesday.In written reply to a parliamentary question, he said training for designated “second-hand goods” police officers

Africa’s booming mobile market’s edge lies in its role as an innovative hub for new products in the banking, health, education and commerce sectors. A number of recent reports released by PwC, Deloitte and the GSM Association have confirmed this growing trend. It

South Africa’s e-reader market received a shake-up this month when Pick n Pay announced that it was bringing the Kobo Touch e-reader to SA for R995. By comparison, the Kindle Touch 3G, which was recently launched in South Africa, retails at R2 699. Obviously

Brett Haggard, Benedict Kelly and Aki Anastasiou get together in studio this week to discuss Vodacom’s results and what they mean, the BlackBerry 10 launch, the Lumia 920, Samsung’s price hike for Apple, scientists perfecting the invisibility cloak, and more

Brett Haggard, Andy Hadfield and Dominic White congregate for episode 231 of the ZA Tech Show and discuss the launch of Windows 8, criticism of the Surface and Windows RT, Steve Jobs’s yacht, password and security tips, and much more

Internet giant Google is threatening to sue a young entrepreneur from Middelburg in Mpumalanga because his website has a similar name, Beeld reported on Wednesday. Andries Maree, 23, owns domain name Doogle.co.za, a website that allows employment

The 16% electricity tariff hike every year for the next five years is unavoidable, public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday. “It [the tariff increase] is not fair, [but] it is necessary,” Gigaba said at a business breakfast in Fourways.

South Africa needs an independent operator in the electricity sector, the Free Market Foundation (FMF) said on Tuesday. A single grid owner and operator, South Africa’s current model, resulted in a lack of competition, FMF director Eustace Davie told reporters