Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
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National excess deaths, seen as a more precise way of measuring total fatalities from the coronavirus, rose to 203 000 during the coronavirus pandemic, the South African Medical Research Council said.
MTN is working to expand its 5G coverage, despite uncertainty about the allocation of new spectrum, and has deployed 5G towers in Polokwane and Emalahleni, with more towns to follow.
A powerful cold front that swept across South Africa overnight, coupled with a loss of generation capacity, means Eskom will implement load shedding from 4pm to 9pm on Thursday.
New data released by Netstar, the vehicle tracking and recovery firm owned by JSE-listed Altron, has shows clearly the massive impact of last week’s riots on South Africa’s trucking industry.
Naspers, through its Foundry start-up investment business, said on Wednesday that it is investing R34-million in Ctrl, a digital short-term insurance marketplace that connects consumers, brokers and insurers.
Pfizer and BioNTech have struck a deal for South Africa’s Biovac Institute to help manufacture around 100 million doses a year of their Covid-19 vaccine for the African Union.
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President Joao Lourenco has repeatedly vowed to steer Angola into a new era of transparency. Last week, he missed a golden opportunity to deliver on that promise.
How much are customers willing to pay for Netflix? The streaming service is grappling with that question once again after raising prices in some of its largest territories over the past month.
Intel, whose products dominate the world of computing, said it’s going to wind down a multibillion-dollar, multi-decade effort to grab a viable stake of the mobile phone industry.
Apple and Qualcomm agreed to end a two-year legal battle over billions of dollars of technology licensing fees that had threatened to reshape the chip maker’s business.
Stock market analysts have praised outgoing Vodacom Group CEO Pieter Uys, saying the telecommunications operator flourished during his tenure and that his designated replacement, Shameel Joosub, is a sound choice to succeed him. The move is widely
The recent piece by BMI-Techknowledge senior consultant Martyn Roetter, in response to a Convergence Partners research report on wholesale open-access wireless networks, itself deserves some reply. It goes without saying that the Convergence Partners’ research report speaks to that company’s own strategy
