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Xneelo has begun construction on a second data centre at Samrand in Gauteng.
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.
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Eskom is pitching a R140-billion plan to global lenders that would see it shut the vast majority of its coal-fired plants by 2050 and embrace renewable energy.
MTN in Eswatini, the small, land-locked country on South Africa’s eastern border, said on Wednesday that it is struggling to keep its network operating amid rising unrest against the monarchy.
The multibillion-rand Africa Coast to Europe submarine Internet cable system, which connects South Africa and Europe along Africa’s west coast, is now accessible in through Teraco’s peering infrastructure.
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France’s Orange sees no issue in working with Huawei in Africa, where the Chinese company dominates as a supplier of equipment to many telecommunications operators.
South Africa is moving with more urgency to stiffen oversight of cryptocurrency assets after a proliferation of scams.
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Tencent Holdings’ quiet recovery has turned dramatic, leaving traders to wonder whether there’s a hidden reason behind the stock’s latest leg up.
An Israeli spacecraft has taken the ultimate selfie on its roundabout journey to the moon. Organisers for the privately funded mission released the photo on Tuesday, one-and-a-half weeks after its launch.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk caught many employees by surprise with his announcement last week that the electric-car maker would close most stores and shift to online-only sales.
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After years of rigorous debate, the SA Bureau of Standards (SABS) has finally issued the final draft minimum standard for the set-top box decoders that will be used to receive digital terrestrial television signals in SA. The draft spec outlines a basic receiver that does not include a return path for interactivity. The draft spec, which was published
Just when telecommunications industry players and analysts thought SA couldn’t possibly get any more undersea broadband infrastructure, news is emerging of a raft of new cable systems that will serve both SA and the region. On Monday, Brazil, Russia, India, China and SA — the so-called Brics countries — announced plans for a new high-capacity
