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UKZN’s Aerospace Systems Research Institute wants to scale commercially, with a suborbital flight targeted for 2028.
Polling finds 58% of registered voters would exempt US companies from B-BBEE in exchange for investment and jobs.
Early land-clearing work has begun on what Elon Musk has claimed will be the biggest building on Earth, to build advanced chips.
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South African start-up AirhostSwap lets Airbnb hosts swap their empty nights for stays at properties worldwide.
JSE-listed fintech Optasia has smashed its listing guidance, with revenue up 76% and users climbing 43% to 432 million.
Strong growth in Ghana and Uganda has pushed transaction volumes past the half a trillion dollar mark.
MTN is planning AI-enabled data centres in South Africa and Nigeria as it bets on Africa’s infrastructure boom.
Eskom has marked 300 consecutive days without load shedding, with plant outages down 53% year on year.
Prepaid woes and rising bad debts have dragged MTN South Africa’s earnings down, despite strong enterprise growth.
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Israeli cybersecurity start-up Wiz has ended talks with Google on a reported $23-billion deal.
The global tech outage caused by CrowdStrike impacted nearly 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft said at the weekend.
Friday’s IT chaos, which disrupted businesses worldwide, has been linked to a piece of software called CrowdStrike Falcon.
South Africa’s Capitec Bank was a victim of the global outage caused by a rogue software update.
Elon Musk wants to transform Twitter into a platform for free speech with few restrictions. But Musk, who is famously sensitive to criticism, has a mixed record on championing the cause.
Less than a week after CEO Parag Agrawal excitedly tweeted that the world’s richest man would get a seat, he’s now been forced to backpedal.
