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Theft of vehicles is about as old as the notion of transport – from horse thieves to hijackers. No longer merely putting a brick through a window, vehicle thieves have continually adapted to new technology, as demonstrated by a new method to steal a car without the
Eskom will implement load shedding in stage one at 10am on Tuesday and this will continue until 10pm, the electricity utility said. “The grid is exceptionally tight. There is a medium to high chance of load shedding today [Tuesday] if we do see further technical challenges developing
More than a quarter of IBM’s employees could be laid off later this week, according to a column on Forbes’s website penned by well-known technology industry author and columnist Robert X Cringely
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
A spokesman for Netflix has reportedly confirmed that the online video-on-demand service will be launched in South Africa before the end of next year. This follows news on Wednesday that
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
