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The crisis at Eskom is getting worse, with the state-owned utility set to implement stage-6 power cuts until midnight on Friday.

Growthpoint Properties has said it’s running out of diesel to operate generators at some of its buildings as the country grapples with the escalating crisis at Eskom.

Nkwe Platinum and South Africa Zijin Platinum have contracted MTN and Huawei to build what the parties are calling Southern Africa’s first 5G-enabled “smart metal mine”.

The Internet service provider industry in South Africa is fed up with confusing regulations from communications regulator Icasa over ownership rules.

Absa is making a raft of changes to its top management position to refocus its strategy towards being more customer centric.

Small businesses, still reeling from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, are now under further strain during the worst power cuts in over two years.

After successfully halting analogue switch-off on 30 June, e.tv has said it knows it needs to vacate the analogue spectrum bands as soon as possible.

The South African market has evolved, and continues to evolve, differently from many other places in the world.

Eskom said there was still a high level of absenteeism among its workforce due to a strike and that it could take weeks to clear a maintenance backlog.

Eskom is offering workers a 7% wage increase after the utility lost units during illegal protests that plunged South Africa into the worst blackouts since 2019, sources said.