Johannesburg, Africa’s dominant financial center, wants to meet 35% of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2030 and will seek proposals for privately supplied power by August.
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Microsoft is pulling the plug on its once omnipresent browser, Internet Explorer, next year as it prepares to battle market leader Chrome with its slicker Edge browser.
Bitcoin and ether remained under pressure after a bruising US session that left much of the cryptocurrency community in shock.
A handful of vaccine holdouts in Africa – the world’s least-inoculated continent – could pose another big challenge for global efforts to end the pandemic.
The digital dividend will be released to telecommunications operators on a province-by-province basis, communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams said in parliament.
Virtual currencies are retreating so broadly and sharply, it’s testing the durability of the cryptocurrency boom.
MTN Group has partnered with the International Finance Corporation to train mobile money agents across South Africa to target unbanked and underbanked segments of the population.
The Competition Commission has launched an investigation into online markets in South Africa, designed as a “proactive” measure to prevent monopolies from forming in the e-commerce space.
Bitcoin’s volatile week-long slide saw it tumble to below the $40 000 mark on Wednesday on news of further restrictions on cryptocurrency transactions in China.
Vodacom spent more than R10-billion on its network in South Africa in the financial year to 31 March, outpacing rival MTN, as it ramped up investment to deal with soaring demand.