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Russia’s atomic energy agency said on Monday that it will provide up to eight nuclear reactors to South Africa by 2023 in a US$50m strategic partnership between the two countries. The delivery of the reactors will enable the foundation of the first

The latest version of First National Bank’s transactional banking app for smartphones now offers customers the ability to send money across the border to Zimbabwe and Mozambique. FNB’s Zimbabwe money transfer service was first launched on

Paramount Group, Africa’s largest privately owned defence and aerospace business, this week took the wraps off the Ahrlac, a homegrown aircraft that offers a highly configurable payload system that allows it to be transformed quickly based on operational requirements. The Ahrlac

Increased Internet access will generate more consumer spend than any other media service over the next five years in the South African entertainment and media industry, according to a new report released this week. Auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, in its “South African

Mobile operator Cell C has announced that it will offer free access to WhatsApp, the popular instant-messaging service, to its contract customers as well as some prepaid clients on a promotional basis. Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos describes the move as being part of a need by mobile

outh Africa is set to pass a million registered Internet domain names ending in .za, South Africa’s delegation in cyberspace, by the first quarter of 2015. There are currently 969 190 registered domain names ending in .za, according to ZA Central Registry CEO Lucky Masilela, who revealed

The Public Service Commission (PSC) is investigating the appointment of President Jacob Zuma’s daughter Thuthukile Zuma, 25, to the powerful role of chief of staff at the ministry of ­telecommunications and postal services – and a new study shows her appointment may have

Iono.fm is one of South Africa’s largest audio content aggregators and offers on-demand audio services for radio stations and other audio content providers. “When we started, we wanted to develop a personal video recorder (PVR)-like service for radio stations and build an audio-on-demand

Power utility Eskom was not there to make money, but to supply electricity, senior GM Andrew Etzinger said on Thursday. “We provide electricity to our customers, we are not here to make money,” he said at the Powering African Industry conference at Nasrec

A cellphone shop was robbed at Benmore shopping centre in Sandton, north of Johannesburg, Gauteng police said on Thursday. Armed robbers came in and pointed a firearm at the security guard and an employee, said Lt-Col Khensani Magoai. “They took them to the storeroom, forced them to open the safe, and