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He’s best known for being the world’s first “Afronaut”, but since returning to Earth from his 2002 trip on Russia’s Soyuz TM-34 rocket ship, Cape Town native Mark Shuttleworth set about with the conquest of a much more lucrative

EOH said on Monday that its shares went into freefall last week, tumbling to as low as R26.55, because of the forced sale of shares by financial institutions against equity-financed transactions to various individual

Former BCX CEO Isaac Mophatlane has joined the board of Crossfin, a financial technology investment business that has taken stakes in a number of businesses, including Innervation, WiGroup, Emerge Mobile (including iKhokha

Teraco Data Environments has completed its Bredell facility in Johannesburg. Described by the company as Africa’s first “hyperscale data centre”, the site, on Gauteng’s East Rand, has over 24MW of power and 6 000sq m of

The Post Office will take over the distribution of welfare grants from current service provider Net1 UEPS Technologies, minister in the presidency Jeff Radebe said on Sunday. The agreement between the South Africa

Amazon Web Services, the cloud division of Amazon.com, may build data centres in South Africa, according to a report published on Sunday. The company plans to switch on an “AWS Direct Connect” service in Johannesburg and Cape Town this

The aggressive selloff in EOH shares continued on Friday morning, with the counter shedding another 41% to reach lows last seen six years ago, well below R30/share. Friday morning’s plunge follows a 34.7% decline on Thursday

EOH’s share price plunged more than 45% in intraday trading on Thursday, though industry analysts polled by TechCentral don’t know why it tumbled so precipitously. The company did not to respond to a request for comment