A South African fund that was established to promote investment in infrastructure expects to galvanise funding for projects worth more than R100-billion by next year.
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Moderna said it would spend as much as $500-million to build a factory in Africa that could produce half a billion messenger RNA vaccine doses a year.
South Africa could be plunged back into load shedding as the national electricity system is under “severe pressure”, Eskom warned.
eMedia has filed papers in the high court to stop the communications minister from declaring a March 2022 date for analogue television switch-off.
Telkom is taking Icasa to court to try to stop the communications regulator’s planned withdrawal of temporary spectrum at the end of next month.
Walmart-owned retail group Massmart has secured the acquisition of online shopping logistics firm OneCart after announcing in August that it was in talks to buy the company.
FedEx Express has completed an electric delivery vehicle trial in Johannesburg and now plans to introduce EVs into its South African fleet.
The department of health is testing South Africa’s digital Covid-19 vaccine certificate to “troubleshoot” all possible glitches ahead of the official launch.
Google will spend $1-billion over the next five years on infrastructure development, skills development and other digital initiatives in Africa, CEO Sundar Pichai said.
Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said this week’s outage at Facebook is a reminder government can do more to support the development of local social media platforms.