Home affairs says smart ID replacements are now offered at 753 bank branches, beating its target.
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The co-founder who led Nvidia for 33 years has resigned after a week of scandal. CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim CEO.
Bob Group says customers’ card details should be treated as exposed after a breach of its systems in late October.
SunCentral 1 supplies three customers. SolarAfrica says its next two plants will share their output among 42.
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Eskom will implement stage-2 national load shedding from 9pm on Thursday evening. The rolling blackouts will continue until 5am, the state-owned utility said.
Teraco, the largest data centre operator in South Africa, has completed its Cape Town “hyperscale” data centre campus expansion. Here’s what it looks like.
MTN South Africa is going uncapped – not on fibre, but on its wireless network, launching uncapped fixed-LTE plans starting at R499/month in a challenge to rival Rain.
Eskom has said retrofitting about half of its coal-fired plants with pollution-cutting equipment would cost more than R300-billion and boost electricity costs.
A South African fund that was established to promote investment in infrastructure expects to galvanise funding for projects worth more than R100-billion by next year.
Moderna said it would spend as much as $500-million to build a factory in Africa that could produce half a billion messenger RNA vaccine doses a year.
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A disgruntled Tesla employee broke into the company’s manufacturing operating system and sent highly sensitive data to unknown third parties, according to an e-mail Elon Musk sent to staff. The worker, who had been denied
ZTE dived 24% after American lawmakers green-lit a bill to restore severe penalties on the Chinese telecommunications gear maker, potentially up-ending a deal struck with US President Donald Trump to allow it
The UK will develop its own satellite navigation system if the European Union decides to bar the nation from accessing the bloc’s Galileo programme after Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May said. “This is an issue,” May told
The Bank of International Settlements just told the cryptocurrency world it’s not ready for prime time — and as far as mainstream financial services go, may never be. In a withering, 24-page article released on Sunday as part
Kenyan telecommunications operator Safaricom has increased its market share from about 60% three years ago to over 80% on the back of its M-Pesa cellphone money transfer service. Now Vodacom is hoping to emulate those market share gains in SA. That’s the word from Mark Taylor, newly appointed MD of Vodacom Payment Services, the company that houses the company’s M-Pesa offering.
Vodacom expects to sign up 10m M-Pesa mobile money users within three years. The telecommunications operator’s director in charge of the product’s launch, Romeo Kumalo, revealed the ambitious target during the product’s launch in Midrand, north of Johannesburg, on Tuesday.
