Author: Staff Reporter

Africa Data Centres has announced that its long-serving CEO, Stephane Duproz, has been replaced in the role by Tesh Durvasula.

The maximum percentage contribution by renewable sources towards electricity supplied in South Africa occurred at 1pm on 1 November last year.

South Africa has the second-fastest average mobile download speed in Africa at 19.2Mbit/s – beaten on the continent by only one other country.

Eskom will implement the first load shedding of 2022 from today, 2 February. The rotational power cuts will begin at 11am and continue until 5am on Monday.

Naspers has closed its OLX in South Africa, saying the move was done so it can focus its customer proposition fully on its property and motor vehicle platforms.

Moove, the African fintech start-up that partners with Uber, has announced its second major fundraising round in less than six months.

Standard Bank said on Tuesday that its customers are struggling to access its Internet banking platform and its mobile banking app.

Peter Searle, the group CEO of software development house BBD, will step down at the end of February after more than 10 years in the role.

While struggling to scrape money together for maintenance work, Eskom is having to fork out big money to fight theft and vandalism.

TallOrder Solutions, a technology company co-founded by South African IT industry veteran Dana Buys, has announced it has raised R47-million in additional funding.