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Fewer learners studying mathematics at school level threatens South Africa’s economic competitiveness.
Investment is pouring into renewable energy, but grid expansion will determine whether momentum can be sustained.
Women’s groups, tech watchdogs and progressive activists are calling on Google and Apple to remove the apps.
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Teraco, the largest data centre operator in South Africa, has completed its Cape Town “hyperscale” data centre campus expansion. Here’s what it looks like.
MTN South Africa is going uncapped – not on fibre, but on its wireless network, launching uncapped fixed-LTE plans starting at R499/month in a challenge to rival Rain.
Eskom has said retrofitting about half of its coal-fired plants with pollution-cutting equipment would cost more than R300-billion and boost electricity costs.
A South African fund that was established to promote investment in infrastructure expects to galvanise funding for projects worth more than R100-billion by next year.
Moderna said it would spend as much as $500-million to build a factory in Africa that could produce half a billion messenger RNA vaccine doses a year.
South Africa could be plunged back into load shedding as the national electricity system is under “severe pressure”, Eskom warned.
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US President Donald Trump has abruptly escalated his trade war with China, announcing that he would impose a 10% tariff on a further $300-billion in Chinese imports.
IBM has fired as many as 100 000 employees in the last few years in an effort to boost its appeal to millennials, according to a deposition from a former vice president in an age discrimination lawsuit.
The British home secretary has called for a backdoor into end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms in a bid to tackle security threats.
Spotify shares fell as much as 5.1% in pre-market trading on Wednesday after the music streaming company reported slightly slower subscriber growth than investors had hoped.
Mobile operator Cell C is allegedly giving Blue Label Telecoms-owned wireless application service providers (Wasps) preferential rates and services when they use its network, a move that has angered rival service providers. BulkSMS MD Pieter Streicher says the
Telkom’s share price continues to trade at near to all-time record lows as a lack of clarity from government on its plans for the company and uncertainty about who will take over from outgoing CEO Nombulelo Moholi continue to cloud the outlook for investors. Moholi
