Finance minister Tito Mboweni said the South African economy could contract as much as 6.4% this year due to the coronavirus outbreak and the budget deficit could swell to more than 10% of GDP.
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Alphabet shares surged after first-quarter results and upbeat executive comments showed the company’s cloud and YouTube businesses kept growing in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Telkom is introducing a new wholesale product for ISPs that will mean consumers can directly obtain a broadband service from their ISP and will no longer be required to buy a copper line from Telkom’s retail division.
Tracking people infected with Covid-19 has become an important weapon in global responses to combating the virus. But at what cost?
The severity of Apple’s challenges amid the Covid-19 pandemic is starting to become clear. And it’s not looking good.
Ethiopia moved closer to liberalising one of the world’s final frontiers for telecommunications by publishing the final draft of directives. South Africa’s MTN Group and Vodacom Group are keen to invest.
Morai Solutions, one of three companies to be awarded temporary access to radio frequency spectrum to deploy television white-spaces networks during the Covid-19 pandemic, has set out its plans.
An asteroid more than a mile wide is set to make a pass by Earth on Wednesday, although scientists insist it poses no danger.
Net1 UEPS Technologies is seeking to place a subsidiary that’s been ordered to repay hundreds of millions of rand to the welfare department in business rescue.
With South Africa in lockdown, citizens need to stand up to irrational decisions by politicians who think they know better. E-commerce is one area where this fight needs to be waged. By Duncan McLeod.