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South Africa is considering the introduction of electronic “vaccine passports” to allow people access to public and private spaces and venues.

To say the last few weeks at TechCentral have been busy is to put it mildly. But what you’re looking at today is the fruit of that industry, and months of planning that came before it.

China’s Sinovac Biotech is in talks about setting up a vaccine production facility in South Africa with its local partner, the CEO of Numolux said on Friday.

Discovery will give adult members of its Vitality behaviour change platform 2 500 points for being fully vaccinated against Covid-19 this year.

The proliferation of Covid-19 variants in Africa, partly attributed to the low rates of vaccination on the continent, could lead to vaccine-evading mutations that complicate attempts to end the pandemic.

Tencent and NetEase shed more than $60-billion of value on Thursday as investor fears grow that Chinese regulators are preparing to tighten their grip dramatically on the world’s largest gaming industry.

Mustek has reported a 248% leap in full-year headline earnings per share, hiked its dividend per share by 246% and said revenue climbed by more than a quarter to over R8-billion.

The justice department said it’s systems have been interrupted by a ransomware attack, the second such assault on a state institution in the past two months.

Despite efforts to make Eskom profitable, including a process of unbundling its divisions into separate entities, “the core problem of debt” has yet to be addressed, Futuregrowth Asset Management has said.

Microsoft has warned some of its Azure cloud computing customers that a flaw discovered by security researchers could have allowed hackers access to their data.