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The Equiano subsea Internet cable was landed north of Cape Town on Monday, the last stop on the route south for the 12-fibre-pair system.

African start-ups are expanding into Europe and other parts of the world, betting on providing more affordable services with a growing tech talent pool.

Karpowership said its appeal to overturn an environmental ruling has failed in another blow to South Africa’s attempts to resolve its power crisis.

Transport minister Fikile Mbalula has encouraged the public to report potholes on municipal and provincial roads using a newly launched app.

As IT systems outages go, this one was doozy. Capitec went offline for almost two days last week, infuriating its customers.

The presidency said government has made significant progress in structural reforms, including the successful auctioning off of broadband spectrum.

Progress in bringing generation capacity online, coupled with low weekend demand, means Eskom will no longer implement load shedding on Sunday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa recently outlined plans to solve South Africa’s power crisis. But he didn’t mention the protection of energy infrastructure as a prerequisite to any solution.

MTN South Africa plans to restructure its finance division, with possible layoffs to follow, a move that has been severely criticised by trade union Solidarity.

Eskom will implement load shedding at stage 2 on both Saturday and Sunday between 4pm and midnight as it continues to struggle to cope with demand.