Author: Staff Reporter

There is a heightened risk of load shedding during the evening peak of 5pm to 10pm throughout the coming winter, Eskom warned on Tuesday.

Creditors remain in the dark as CNA battles to avoid business rescue.

MTN South Africa has cut the effective price of prepaid data and voice calls with amendments to its EverydayGigs plan and by introducing a new plan called EverydayTalk.

Eskom has implemented rolling blackouts with immediate effect. The stage-2 load shedding will last until Tuesday night, the state-owned utility said in a statement at 5pm on Sunday.

The Ombudsman for Banking Services’ annual report reveals that it opened 7 717 formal cases in 2020 – a new record. That’s a 19% increase on the prior year, despite the Covid-19 lockdown.

The SABC has begun warning viewers of its analogue terrestrial television channels that the broadcasts are coming to an end as the country finally moves to digital terrestrial technology.

A pandemic-fuelled online shopping boom lifted South Africa’s e-commerce sales by 66% last year to more than R30-billion, according to a new research report published on Wednesday.

First National Bank has created a secure application programming interface to allow Sage accounting customers to import their bank records automatically into their accounting software.

Cape Town-based education-technology start-up iXperience has secured $2.5-million in series-A funding from South African investment firms Kalon Venture Partners and Caleo Private Equity.

Former MTN Group CEO Phuthuma Nhleko has been appointed as non-executive director of the JSE from 1 July and will take on the additional role of chairing the board from next year.