Telkom says Icasa’s equity rules go beyond the B-BBEE Act and may have deterred network investment.
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The internet is roasting Nvidia Jensen Huang over his affair with Alice Huang using generative AI.
Four import-export licences are out, but the electricity regulator’s import and export rules are not.
He will be the distributor’s third CEO since mid-2025, after Emile Burger left in July following just 14 months in charge.
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Eskom lost another generating unit at the Kusile power station on Monday afternoon, forcing the state-owned utility to escalate load shedding to stage 4.
Altron has reported a 37.8% increase in headline earnings per share from continuing operations on the back of a 5.7% improvement in full-year revenue.
Eskom chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer has warned that the current bout of load shedding could get worse if there are further plant breakdowns.
Vodacom Group is mulling a bond issue and will pay a smaller proportion of its earnings in dividends as it looks to finance new growth plans.
Vodacom Group on Monday declared a full-year dividend of R4.30/share after reporting a solid performance from South Africa, its biggest market.
The rand fell in early trade on Monday amid subdued risk-taking as investors sought safety due to fears about global growth and the impact of load shedding.
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Facebook shares surged in late trading after the largest social media company posted robust quarterly sales growth and signalled it may be close to resolving a US privacy investigation.
Microsoft’s cloud computing business fuelled quarterly sales and profit that topped analysts’ estimates, boosted by several new deals with large corporate clients.
SAP raised its operating profit outlook for the year, bolstered by strong growth in its cloud business, as the German software maker pushes ahead with a major restructuring.
John McAfee, the eccentric antivirus pioneer known for his brushes with the law, said he has spoken to bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and plans to reveal the person’s identity.
The West African Cable System (Wacs), the latest submarine cable to land on African shores, has arrived, offering SA operators 500Gbit/s of capacity at launch. The system, which has a design capacity of 5,1Tbit/s, makes use of both 10Gbit/s and 40Gbit/s technology on different segments and will
ZTE Mzanzi has accused its partner, China’s ZTE, of “throwing it under a bus” when it terminated agreements with the local, black-controlled company. It’s also accused it of colluding with competitor Huawei. TechCentral broke the news on Thursday

































