Author: Staff Reporter

Load shedding has struck again. Eskom will cut the power on a rolling basis across South Africa at stage 2 from 5pm on Monday afternoon.

Eskom has decided not to replace the steam generators at unit 2 of the Koeberg nuclear power station as planned this year over fears it could contribute to winter power cuts.

MTN Group has acquired virtual land in Africarare, a metaverse, joining advertising agency M&C Saatchi Abel, which announced similar plans earlier on Monday.

M&C Saatchi Abel has opened an “office” in the so-called metaverse, after purchasing its own “plot of land” in the newly created Ubuntuland.

Teraco said on Monday that it will offer high-speed connectivity directly into US business software giant Oracle’s new data centre in Johannesburg.

Cell C has rejigged popular prepaid broadband bundles, and is now offering 2GB of data for R45 (plus 2GB for use late at night).

Naspers Foundry said on Tuesday that it will invest R15-million in Cape Town-based Floatplays, an “on-demand earned wage access platform”.

Many South African companies already use software from US CRM specialist Salesforce.com. Now the company has officially established a “legal entity” in the country.

MTN Group said on Friday that its full-year headline earnings per share would rise by between 25% and 35%.

Regulator Zadna has short-listed five bidders to provide registry services for .co.za, .net.za and org.za second-level domains.