Author: Staff Reporter

Walt Disney Co Africa has reached an agreement to distribute Disney+, its Internet streaming service, on MultiChoice Group’s DStv set-top boxes.

After a week of debilitating rolling blackouts imposed by Eskom, President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to bring an end to load shedding.

The current debilitating bout of crippling load shedding will end at 10pm on Friday evening, Eskom said, even as the utility warned that the systems remains “severely constrained”.

Google’s giant new submarine cable, Equiano, which will connect South Africa and Europe along Africa’s west coast, has been brought ashore in Nigeria.

New research shows South Africans actively dislike telecoms operators, with the industry ranked last in net customer sentiment, below banking, insurance and retail.

Eskom will later on Wednesday reduce to stage 3 the current bout of severe load shedding that is crippling South Africa’s economy.

Walt Disney Co has provided more details about the launch in South Africa next month of Disney+, the company’s fast-expanding streaming service.

Eskom suddenly escalated load shedding to stage 4 on Tuesday morning after the state-owned electricity utility lost more generating units from its fleet.

In an unprecedented development, Eskom has said it will implement load shedding on Easter Sunday, when demand from electricity users is low.

Emergency evacuation sirens, meant to warn Cape Town residents of a problem at the Koeberg power station, sounded on Thursday – but this was a false alarm.