Eskom is broke and can’t invest in any further capacity. Independent power producers will have to do it, and they will need an independent transmission and market operator that they trust.
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Even in a year when bashing tech companies has become a bipartisan avocation, last week’s US antitrust assault on Facebook stands out.
Services from Google were experiencing widespread outages around the world on Monday, preventing people from accessing Gmail, YouTube and other products.
Ahead of the year-end break, Vodacom has announced it has greatly expanded its 5G coverage in the holiday mecca that is KwaZulu-Natal.
Eskom is headed for another full-year a loss as fundamental problems remain even after making a profit of R83-million in the first half of its fiscal year.
US government agencies have been hit by a widespread campaign of cyberattacks by hackers who were suspected of exploiting a flaw in the update of a US software company.
UK engineers will soon begin work on a comet-chasing spacecraft that will track down and map one of the celestial objects in three dimensions.
Social network firm Reddit said on Sunday ithat t would buy short-video platform Dubsmash, becoming the latest company to expand in a space dominated by Chinese-owned TikTok.
South African industry is already starting to wind down for the Christmas holidays, yet Eskom can’t keep the lights on — on a weekend!
Though Amazon.com is staying mum for now on details of its planned “utility-scale” renewable energy project in South Africa, it has emerged that it will source the power from a giant solar farm to be built in the Northern Cape.