Author: Staff Reporter

As Sipho Maseko begins his orderly and well-telegraphed exit from the Telkom CEO position, a first quarter financial update from the telecommunications provider contains a few more worrying signs.

JSE-listed IT services group EOH Holdings plans a secondary listing on A2X Markets, with its shares to available to trade from Friday, 13 August.

South Africa experienced 650 hours of load shedding in the first half of 2021 (15% of the time), shedding an estimated 963GWh of estimated energy, according to a new report from the CSIR.

Naspers, through its Naspers Foundry investment business, is leading a R160-million series-A funding round in South African fintech start-up Naked Insurance.

First National Bank has finally launched supported for Apple Pay in South Africa, the financial services institution said on Tuesday.

SAP Africa has appointed company veteran Tracy Bolton as chief operating officer. Bolton, who has worked in various roles at SAP for the past nine years, has 25 years of experience in the IT sector.

Eskom has reached “commercial operation status” of its final generation unit at Medupi, one of the world’s largest coal-fired power stations – and likely one of the last of its size to be built.

First National Bank is deploying mobile ATMs in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng hit by recent large-scale looting as a temporary measure while it rebuilds infrastructure destroyed in the riots.

Contactless payments platform SnapScan has released an update to its app that allows people to make peer-to-peer payments from its electronic wallet.

South African insurance-technology start-up Pineapple has raised R80-million in a series-A funding round from investors including Vunani Capital and Old Mutual.