Fewer learners studying mathematics at school level threatens South Africa’s economic competitiveness.
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Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
Visa is integrating stablecoins into its payments network, positioning itself as the bridge to global merchant acceptance.
Oracle has been accused of concealing its need to sell significant additional debt to build out its AI infrastructure.
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The five-and-a-half-hour outage on the JSE that prevented traders buying and selling stocks until well into the afternoon on Wednesday was not a good signal for a bourse that touts itself as Africa’s finest.
South Africa is again on the brink of load shedding after Eskom was forced to take several power generating units off the grid on Thursday.
South Africa will open up Covid-19 vaccinations to those aged between 18 and 35 years from Friday, the government said in a statement, as it tries to ramp up its immunisation drive.
Facebook on Thursday launched a test of a new virtual-reality remote work app where users of the company’s Oculus Quest 2 headsets can hold meetings as avatar versions of themselves.
The rand, which managed to avoid a major blowout following riots in two of South Africa’s key provinces in July, finally gave way and weakened below the psychological R15 to the US dollar level on Thursday.
Shoprite Group has created a new digital business unit called ShopriteX in which it plans to combine data science, technology and innovation to “enhance customer experiences”.
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Around the world, governments are hitting on a modish new idea: turn the Internet off. Sometimes they mean it literally.
A temporary ban on Huawei researchers editing and reviewing scientific papers has been lifted by one of the world’s biggest engineering bodies.
Huawei Technologies is selling its majority slice of its global submarine cable division, exiting the business of laying undersea piping for the Internet just weeks after the Trump administration blocked it from buying American technology.
Spare a thought for Chinese officials trying to read Donald Trump as the showdown intensifies between the world’s two largest economies.
Cell C will also switch on a fourth-generation (4G) mobile network using long-term evolution (LTE) technology in 2012, but the company is not saying where this network will be built or how many towers will be supported. CEO Alan Knott-Craig says
The status quo in SA’s telecommunications industry is “not sustainable” and a wave of consolidation is coming soon. That’s the view of Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig, who says he expects a big shake-up in the industry, possibly within the next six months, with smaller players reaching out to each
