Changes to South Africa’s competition law have widened the scope for the country’s antitrust bodies to punish anticompetitive behaviour. But implementing the changes, which were passed into law five years ago, is proving to be fraught with difficulty. The Competition Amendment Act
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In 2016, a team of engineers and adventurers will travel to the South African desert and attempt to become the first people to drive a car at a thousand miles an hour (1 609km/h). The British-made vehicle, Bloodhound SSC, is designed to smash the current world land-speed record
E.tv has filed an application for leave to appeal a judgment by the high court that went against it in the ongoing battle over whether South Africa’s digital terrestrial television signal will be encrypted or
Fibre-optic telecommunications specialist Link Africa has won a high-stakes showdown with the City of Tshwane (greater Pretoria) at the constitutional court, allowing it to deploy infrastructure in the
The dust has now settled on the latest product launch from Apple, which for many trumped headlines about refugees and poverty. We have new iPads, iPhones and more. But how new are they really
The war on wildlife crime is taking a new technology-driven direction. Rhinos are being fitted with GPS trackers, heart-rate monitors and spy cameras – all embedded within their horns. These small but high-tech devices could be a game changer for anti-poaching efforts in Africa
South Africa could look to places like Finland and Turkey when trying to figure out a way to fund its high-cost nuclear build programme. National treasury is currently exploring funding options for the department of energy, which is seeking the procurement of 9,6GW worth of
The one thing everyone knows about quantum mechanics is its legendary weirdness, in which the basic tenets of the world it describes seem alien to the world we live in. Superposition, where things
It’s a veritable feast for couch potatoes – or at least those with access to affordable and fast broadband. In the space of just a few months, almost half a dozen new video-on-demand players have been launched in South Africa, promising an alternative to satellite pay
The OECD has just given the world an F when it comes to using computers to improve educational outcomes in schools and to give teenagers the digital skills they will increasingly need in life. In a report released this week entitled “Students, Computers and Learning”, Andreas