Chery has agreed to acquire Nissan’s Pretoria plant, opening the door for Chinese vehicle manufacturing in South Africa.
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Digital IDs will form the foundation for other government departments to digitise their services.
Watts & Wheels explores the rapid rise of Chinese brands in South Africa, BMW’s response and the future of local manufacturing.
Telecoms industry lobbyists claim Europe’s latest regulatory moves show the “Fair Share” debate is far from settled.
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Renewable energy procured from private generators contributed more than a quarter of the peak-time electricity South Africans consumed during the first half of 2020.
South Africa came out of its longest recession in 28 years as the economy rebounded more than projected in the third quarter.
Apple has launched its first over-ear headphones, entering a competitive market with rivals such as Bose and Sony, and expanding its push into accessories.
Apple is planning a series of new Mac processors for introduction as early as 2021 that are aimed at outperforming Intel’s fastest chips.
HP, the printing and PC devices company spun out of Hewlett-Packard, has appointed Bradley Pulford as its new vice president and MD for the Africa region with immediate effect.
Nokia is leading a group of companies and universities in a European Union funded wireless project called Hexa-X to help jump-start a new generation of mobile technology that’s already being called 6G.
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Electric car pioneer Tesla no longer has the road to itself. German car makers Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen are closing in and may pass their American rival by 2021, based on a consultancy’s ranking of electric
It sounds like something Q, the tech guy in James bond movies, would create: a plane that lands on a runway, shrugs its wings off, turns into a train and rolls on to rails to drop you off at your local station. That’s what a
Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has boosted its bid for Sky, raising the stakes for Comcast to retaliate in a battle for control of Britain’s top pay-television company. Fox offered £14/share to value Sky at £24.5-billion
For most South Africans the choice of what to watch on television is limited to four free-to-air channels. Soon, though, all that will change. SA is back on track to migrating terrestrial television broadcasts
Jeffrey Hedberg is quitting Telkom. The acting group CEO will leave at the end of March, TechCentral has learnt exclusively from reliable senior sources at the JSE-listed telecommunications group

































