Author: Staff Reporter

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.

+OneX, the IT services business in the Reunert stable, has acquired EUCafrica, a major player in Citrix on Microsoft Azure in the South African market.

Naspers-controlled technology investor Prosus has terminated its agreement to buy Indian payments platform BillDesk.

Eskom will implement load shedding again this coming week, extending the worst bout of rolling power cuts in South Africa’s history.

Cabinet has approved a new board of directors at Eskom, public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan said on Friday. Here’s the full list.

MTN South Africa plans to install green-energy solutions at its head office as it moves to meet its own net-zero targets by 2040.