President Cyril Ramaphosa announced sweeping changes to the nation’s electricity industry to address energy shortages and reduce reliance on debt-stricken state power utility Eskom.
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Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions has become the second company, after Vodacom, to sign an agreement with Liquid Telecom South Africa for the procurement of wholesale 5G services.
Even when South Africa has completed the switch-off of analogue television broadcasting signals as part of the long-delayed broadcasting digital migration project, the spectrum may still not be available for broadband operators.
Nedbank said on Thursday that a security breach at a third-party supplier has compromised the details of as many as 1.7 million of its clients.
The cable breaks affecting international Internet connectivity to South Africa should be fully repaired in the coming days, according to the latest updates.
South Africa’s debt-stricken power utility Eskom has begun a process to offer managers voluntary severance packages. The board allocated a budget of R400-million to the plan.
Messaging platform WhatsApp has surpassed two billion active users. The encrypted messaging service, founded in 2009, was bought by Facebook for $19-billion in 2014.
Samsung Electronics is starting a new decade with a new chief in charge of its mobile business, but it’s doing it in the same old fashion: by leaning into its semiconductor advantage to overwhelm consumers with unmatched specs.
Due to some improvement in the power system, Eskom will not implement any load shedding on Wednesday, the state-owned power utility said.
Cosatu said it won’t reach a pact with business on how to resolve the debt crisis at Eskom by the time President Cyril Ramaphosa gives his state-of-the-nation speech on Thursday.