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Power utility Eskom has moved its power cuts from stage one to two, it announced on Twitter on Monday. “Load shedding has moved from stage 1 to stage 2 as of 3pm,” Eskom tweeted. Power cuts would continue until 10pm, it said

Alcatel-Lucent has won the contract from Vodacom to build a fibre broadband network into South African businesses and homes, the telecommunications equipment vendor said on Monday. The company, which is headquartered in France, has been

Eskom implemented load shedding at 11am on Monday and will continue with the rolling blackouts until 10pm tonight, the electricity utility said. Due to electricity demand that has exceeded supply, Eskom implemented load shedding in stage one

Cell C said on Friday that it had lodged an application in the high court in Johannesburg to review communications regulator Icasa’s 2014 late wholesale call termination rate regulations. Those regulations softened asymmetry that favoured Cell C that had

If there is no technical breakdown this week, Eskom will meet electricity demand, the parastatal said on Thursday. “The power system will remain constrained until new generating capacity comes on stream, a process which is expected to take about two to three years,” Eskom said

Two of the world’s hottest technology start-ups, restaurant search and discovery service Zomato and transportation app developer Uber, have announced a global partnership — and the fruits of it will be seen in South Africa first. The fruits of

Altron, the technology and engineering group that owns Altech, Bytes and Powertech, warned on Thursday that its headline earnings for the year to end-February 2015 were likely to slump by at least 40% due to “difficult trading conditions”. Basic earnings per

A new Sim card for mobile phones is promising its users unlimited access to WhatsApp in 150 countries and across 400 network operators. News of the WhatsApp Sim, called the WhatSim, comes as the instant messaging giant, which is owned

It’s what millions of WhatsApp users have wanted for ages and it’s finally happening. The instant messaging giant, which is owned by Facebook, revealed on Wednesday that it will allow people to send