Two incidents at City Power’s Mayfair substation left the public broadcaster relying on generators for days.
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Sakeliga wants the high court to set aside Icasa’s decision on Solly Malatsi’s empowerment policy direction.
Telkom says Icasa’s equity rules go beyond the B-BBEE Act and may have deterred network investment.
Pick n Pay’s Vince Viviers on subscriptions, fresh food, Amazon, dark stores, Penny and personalisation.
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Telkom has reported a decline in full-year revenue of 1.1%, to R42.8-billion. It has blamed tough competition and the weak state of the economy.
Telkom lowered its revenue and profit guidance for the medium term due to a slowdown in growth in its mobile business and a decline in its legacy unit.
The number of fixed lines in service has plunged below a million for the first time as Telkom continues to decommission its legacy copper network.
The data centre business in Wiocc Group plans to establish 100 “edge” data centres in smaller centres across South Africa by year-end.
South Africa’s record electricity cuts last year could rise 10-fold by 2026 unless the country rapidly adds generation capacity, Meridian Economics said.
African Rainbow Energy and Power is looking to boost renewable power generation to become one of the biggest clean energy providers in South Africa and Africa.
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BMW and Jaguar Land Rover will collaborate on their next generation of electric cars, following similar moves by other automakers that have teamed up to share the burden of developing the expensive new technology.
US President Donald Trump has predicted the US and UK will reach agreement over Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, which has been at the centre of a security row between the Western allies.
The looming US antitrust investigation of Google is galvanising as many as a dozen companies to gather their longstanding complaints about the Alphabet unit and consider bringing them to the justice department.
Facebook may be ordered to remove offensive content posted by users in the European Union and then also hunt for similar posts anywhere in the world, an adviser to the bloc’s top court said.
Ericsson-backed BWired, which is building a R1,2bn fibre-optic network that will connect government buildings and businesses in the Johannesburg metropolitan area and serve as a wholesale network to telecommunications operators, is on target for commercial switch-on in the second quarter
The department of trade & industry released its black economic empowerment (BEE) charter for the technology sector last month and it takes force with immediate effect. Although some companies in the sector already comply, others will have to move quickly if they’re to meet its stringent requirements

































