Global companies are tapping South Africa’s cost-effective skills base, while local firms continue to undervalue it.
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Nedbank Group has announced the resignation of its group chief information officer, Ray Naicker.
BMW has warned that South Africa’s EV policy delays are harming investment certainty and long-term competitiveness.
Canal+ CEO Maxime Saada has acknowledged that Showmax has been a significant drag on MultiChoice’s financial performance.
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South Africa aims to have given at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine to 35 million of its 60 million people by Christmas, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
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.
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The US is urging allies to ban networking products from countries without independent court systems, an approach intended to block China’s Huawei and ZTE from competing for new 5G networks in Europe and Asia.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey received his first salary since returning to the chief executive officer role four years ago: 140 US cents.
New Zealand’s official privacy watchdog has described Facebook as “morally bankrupt” and suggested his country follow Australia’s lead by making laws that could jail executives over streamed violence.
Netflix has ended its support for Apple’s AirPlay wireless casting feature, claiming “technical limitations” are behind the policy change.
Indie Game: the Movie, one of the most talked-about films at the Sundance Festival earlier this year, is a rabidly partisan look at the tribulations and triumphs of indie games developers. Romanticising its subjects as the 21st century’s struggling artists, it
Turkish cellphone operator Turkcell has accused SA-based multinational mobile giant MTN of orchestrating a “cover-up” rather than a credible investigation into claims that the South Africans bribed and influence-peddled their way into Iran in 2005. The Turkish company said in a statement that
