South Africa’s school pass rate rose for a fourth consecutive year to the highest since the end of apartheid. Yet the quality of South Africa’s education system continues to lag.
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Eskom will implement stage-2 load shedding in the early hours of Wednesday, later than it might otherwise have done so, to “accommodate the release of the matric results”.
After shedding 8% of their workforce last year, Zimbabwean banks may cut more jobs in 2020 as the economy shrivels and the sector increasingly shifts away from cash and toward digital services.
SpaceX has launched 60 more mini Internet satellites, this time testing a dark coating to appease stargazers.
EOH Holdings chairman Xolani Humphrey Mkhwanazi has passed away, the JSE-listed technology group said on Monday.
Eskom’s generating plant breakdowns took out a stratospheric 15.9GW on Saturday at 6.30am, the highest level yet, which means an astonishing 40% of its coal fleet of around 40GW was offline.
Eskom extended power cuts that started on 4 January until Monday after a conveyor belt failure at its Medupi plant – just as Andre de Ruyter officially takes over as head of the cash-strapped company.
Samsung Electronics said it will introduce new products at an event in San Francisco next month, with speculation the company could rename its new top-end model the Galaxy S20, instead of the S11.
Many South Africans still haven’t returned to work from the holiday season, yet Eskom has already plunged the country back into darkness, casting chances of a recovery in the economy in 2020 into serious doubt.
Takeaway.com is set to declare final victory in the five-month takeover battle for UK food-delivery company Just Eat, people with knowledge of the matter said.