Standard Bank is accelerating the shift to cashless branches as it adapts its physical network to changing customer behaviour.
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A partnership between four financial institutions has led to the launch of an “institutional-grade” stablecoin pegged to the rand.
The entry of China’s Haier into South Africa looks set to sharpen competition in the local home appliance market.
A look at South African tech start-ups whose global acquisitions delivered big exits for founders and international impact.
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The Gauteng provincial government paid Microsoft $20.9-million, instead of R20.9-million, for software, costing the taxpayer millions of rand in exchange-rate losses, the Democratic Alliance has said.
Facebook and Liquid Intelligent Technologies are extending their reach in Africa by laying 2 000km of fibre in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Global Partnership for Ethiopia, the Safaricom-led consortium that won a licence to build a network in the East African nation, has appointed Anwar Soussa to lead the venture.
Botswana has granted a generation licence for a 100MW solar project to local firm Shumba Energy, making it the first independent power producer to set up a large-scale solar plant in the country.
The National Prosecuting Authority said on Monday that Interpol has issued red notices for two Gupta brothers wanted in connection with alleged corruption.
South Africa hit a record of 26 000 fresh Covid-19 cases on Saturday, its second record-breaking tally in as many days, as a rampant third wave of infections coursed through a largely unvaccinated population.
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Volkswagen aims to produce almost 50% more electric cars than it previously targeted, boosting a bet that has already strained profit margins.
Google has dedicated its home page doodle to the World Wide Web to mark the system’s 30th anniversary.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has called on the public and politicians to “come together” to end its misuse in a letter to mark the technology’s 30th anniversary.
US aviation regulators have signalled their confidence in the safety of Boeing’s embattled 737 Max jetliner, issuing a global notice of “continued airworthiness” a day after the model’s second deadly crash in less than five months.
In 1086, William the Conqueror completed a comprehensive survey of England and Wales. The Domesday Book, as it came to be called, contained details of 13 418 places and 112 boroughs — and is still available for public inspection at the National Archives in London. Not so the original version of a new survey that was commissioned for the
Picture yourself as a historian in 2035, trying to make sense of this year’s American election campaign. Many of the websites and blogs now abuzz with news and comment will have long since perished. Data stored electronically decays. Many floppy disks from the early digital age are already unreadable. If you are lucky, copies of
