At first it had planned to cut the power at night only. Now Eskom has said it will implement continuous load shedding until 5am on Friday.
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After a month of testing, Taiwanese computer and electronics brand Asus has launched an online store in South Africa.
The devastating floods that hit KwaZulu-Natal on Monday have knocked out more than a thousand mobile towers operated by Vodacom, MTN and Telkom.
Eskom has published a request for proposals to allow private producers to use land around its coal-fired power stations to build solar farms.
While the global ICT industry is returning to its previous growth levels, in South Africa the recovery is more patchy, new research has found.
Eskom is scrutinising contracts to buy power from a government programme for private developers to quickly bring on board additional generation.
Eskom will again implement load shedding countrywide on Tuesday, with the rolling blackouts set to continue until Friday.
Revenue from legacy fixed-line voice services and subscriptions has plunged by almost 60% in South Africa in the past six years, new research from Icasa has found.
Eskom is implementing stage-2 load shedding with immediate effect. This is after unit 5 of the Medupi power station tripped, taking 700MW of capacity offline.
The South African Reserve Bank has taken a step closer to creating a national digital currency. This is after it took the wraps last week off the second phase of Project Khokha.