Author: Staff Reporter

The City of Johannesburg said on Friday that it has detected a “network breach”, which resulted in unauthorised access to its information systems.

Altron lifted headline earnings per share by 4% in the six months to 31 August 2019 on the back of an 8% increase in revenue from continuing operations to R8.5-billion.

JSE-listed vehicle telematics company Cartrack has delivered a strong set of financial results for the six months ended 31 August 2019, reaching a million subscribers for the first time.

Amazon Web Services said on Wednesday that Old Mutual has struck a wide-ranging deal with the South African financial services group to shift a large portion of its IT workload to the cloud.

Eskom on Wednesday began a series of scheduled rolling blackouts, the first in seven months, as a shortage of supply meant there wasn’t enough electricity being produced to meet demand.

Eskom said on Wednesday that it will implement stage-2 load shedding from 9am on Wednesday, with outages likely to continue until 11pm.

A major fire broke out at MultiChoice’s head office in Randburg on Tuesday afternoon, though the situation was reportedly quickly brought under control. The building was evacuated.

INX-ZA’s Johannesburg Internet Exchange is getting a major upgrade to its backbone after Dark Fibre Africa donated high-speed fibre between the Isando and Parklands Internet exchange points.

A panel of experts under the leadership of the CSIR has submitted a proposal to declare eMalahleni, Klerksdorp and Beaufort West as preferred locations for wind and solar photovoltaic power projects.

A report on Tuesday suggested China Mobile may be about to swoop to the rescue of embattled mobile operator Cell C. Telkom is also rumoured to be circling.