A quartet of newly approved projects is chasing spare grid capacity, not South Africa’s best solar resources.
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Telkom fought to keep its network and South Africa lost a decade. Eskom risks making the same mistake.
eMedia’s landmark deal with Netflix puts its flagship new drama on the streaming giant’s platform a day after broadcast.
In this episode, the Car of the Year controversy, Ferrari’s divisive EV and Stellantis MD Mike Whitfield is in the studio.
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The Bank for International Settlements will test the use of central bank digital currencies with South Africa and other countries in an experiment that could lead to a more efficient global payments platform.
The Gauteng department of roads & transport has launched the “request a slot” campaign aimed at addressing the renewal of drivers’ licences backlog. The campaign started on Wednesday.
JSE-listed technology group Mustek has built on the blowout results it reported in the six months to 31 March 2021 and has said the full-year number will be even more impressive.
South Africa faces “another era of isolation” if it persists with coal power generation, the CEO of Eskom said, arguing a pivot to cleaner energy would boost the competitiveness of the country’s exports.
Eskom is starting a pilot programme to allow businesses to buy green power. It gives businesses a mechanism to purchase clean energy from the utility without having to own a renewable energy generator.
South Africa may limit the use of public amenities to the people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, the health minister said.
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The battery boom is coming to China, California and basically everywhere else – and it will be even bigger than previously thought.
The bad news keeps piling up for Apple ahead of the crucial holiday season.
Tencent Holdings posted earnings that surpassed all analyst estimates as one-time gains and advertising demand limited the impact of a government clampdown on its lucrative games business.
Ripple Labs is gaining new customers because financial firms are seeking faster, more up-to-date technology than the Swift banking network, CEO Brad Garlinghouse said.
Telkom has pulled the plug on a plan to sell the wireless division of its Nigerian subsidiary, Multi-Links, to Visafone for US$52m and will stop funding the operation with immediate effect. Liquidation may follow. The decision to
Barely a decade after he sold his Cape Town Internet security business Thawte Consulting to the US’s Verisign for US$575m, software billionaire Mark Shuttleworth has hit pay dirt again in this week’s acquisition by Visa of local mobile
