South Africa has made domestic and international commitments to climate change mitigation. But the country continues to depend on coal-fired power plants, which provide 92% of its electricity. A key challenge for the country in dealing with electricity shortages is
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A recent spate of Sim-swap fraud cases saw First National Bank and MTN South Africa portrayed as the least trustworthy companies in their respective industries. Dozens of people have fallen victim to the Sim-swap scam, having hundreds of thousands of rand
Our modern world is based on semiconductors. In addition to your computer, cellphones and digital cameras, semiconductors are a critical component of a growing number of devices. Think
Trade & industry minister Rob Davies published a draft aligned ICT sector code for public comment in the Government Gazette on 24 February 2016. Five days later, on 29 February, the minister
Online marketplaces, also known as platform companies, are sprouting up everywhere and redefining business in every industry. “The Uber of…” has become shorthand for tech start-ups
In December 2015, the FBI traced the leak of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight back to a Hollywood executive. According to The Hollywood Reporter, watermarks on the leaked copy led to
Four years after the original Raspberry Pi arrived in February 2012, the new Raspberry Pi 3 has landed, kitted out with a considerably faster, 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex 1,2GHz processor and
The historic combination of favourable macroeconomic conditions for Africa began to reverse in 2013, with a weakening of most commodity prices as well as the taper tantrum in the global financial
Digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin faces a key year ahead that could seal the fate of its long-term adoption, says South African-born Silicon Valley entrepreneur Vinny Lingham. Lingham first integrated Bitcoin payments into his US-based digital gift
Revolutions are, as a rule, rare and momentous processes. But across the African continent the potential is ripe for a clean energy revolution that upsets and leapfrogs the old fossil-fuel order