Chery has agreed to acquire Nissan’s Pretoria plant, opening the door for Chinese vehicle manufacturing in South Africa.
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Digital IDs will form the foundation for other government departments to digitise their services.
Watts & Wheels explores the rapid rise of Chinese brands in South Africa, BMW’s response and the future of local manufacturing.
Telecoms industry lobbyists claim Europe’s latest regulatory moves show the “Fair Share” debate is far from settled.
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Eskom management is increasingly blaming staff in public for load shedding, but fails to provide the basics for them to keep the lights on, according to trade union Solidarity.
A pen gun owned by the late Oliver Tambo is set to be auctioned as a non-fungible token to raise funds for a heritage site.
The number of active fibre-to-the-home connections in Telkom’s network has leapt past the number of legacy copper connections.
Despite a weekend report of an approach by MTN Group, Telkom shares were trading lower on Monday, implying investors don’t believe a deal is imminent or even possible.
Eskom’s power supply crisis is intensifying. The state-owned power utility has announced stage-4 load shedding from 1pm on Monday until 5am on Friday.
The International Finance Corporation has partnered withLiquid Intelligent Technologies to expand data centre capacity and roll out fibre-optic cable in Africa.
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Malaria could be wiped out as early as 2050 with the right tools, enough funding and sufficient political will power, according to scientists.
Facebook and Google are facing intensifying scrutiny by US state law enforcement officers with authority to impose vast fines and even break up companies that are found to have violated antitrust and privacy rules.
ProtonMail is in talks with Huawei Technologies about including its encrypted e-mail service in future mobile devices, part of the Chinese phone maker’s plan to develop an alternative to the Google ecosystem.
With Samsung Electronics finally launching its troubled Galaxy Fold, success for the $1 980 luxury handset may be measured not in how many it ships, but how many competitors decide to develop their own.
Kickstarter project BRCK, the brainchild of Kenyan nonprofit technology outfit Ushahidi, hopes to raise $125 000 to build a communications device that connects users to the Internet using any means possible, even when the power is out. And it’s well on its way to achieving its first objective. In little more
Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S3 was the runaway success in Android smartphones over the past year, selling more than 50m units by mid-March 2013, exceeded only by Apple’s iPhone. So, you’d think the consumer electronics giant would have waited a little longer than it did to release the
