Author: Staff Reporter

Despite intense lobbying by South Africa’s motoring industry, government has so far refused to budge on the high import duties it imposes on electric vehicles.

MTN South Africa has appointed Wanda Matandela to the newly created role of chief commercial operations officer.

Eskom will reduce this week’s relatively mild stage-2 rotational power cuts even further by Friday, the utility said in a statement.

JSE-listed technology group Altron has appointed Collin Govender to the role of MD of its Altron Systems Integration business.

Vodacom and Amazon.com are launching Prime Video bundles to the mobile operator’s prepaid and contract subscribers in South Africa.

After the longest bout of rotational load shedding in South Africa’s history, Eskom will has finally announced an end – for now.

Liquid Dataport, a subsidiary of Cassava Technologies, has acquired a pair of fibre cables on Equiano, the new, Google-owned subsea cable.

Vodacom said on Thursday that it will install solar PV panels at its head office in Midrand, reducing its need for grid-supplied electricity.

Vodacom said on Wednesday that it has broken the 2Gbit/s barrier on its 5G network, achieving a transfer speed of 2.4Gbit/s.

South Africa is a month into the current bout of load shedding, yet the crippling power cuts are set to continue for the foreseeable future.