BT Group, the owner of Britain’s EE mobile company, said on Wednesday it would phase out 3G in the next two years to free up airwaves to help bring 5G to the entire country by 2028.

Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Mustek have been heavily impacted by the ongoing lawlessness in KwaZulu-Natal, with Samsung’s distribution centre in Cato Ridge attacked by looters.

Icasa on Tuesday said it has received reports of 113 “network towers” across the country having been attacked by criminals in recent days as unprecedented violence and looting grip the country.

Three months after being forced to take down videos from its website in which it implored Adapt IT shareholders to accept its offer to buy the software services group, Huge Group has again gone on the offensive.

South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccination programme has been partially halted as violent protests following the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma rage in two key provinces.

Telkom has joined MTN and Vodacom in shutting stores in violence-torn KwaZulu-Natal, and has now decided to close its outlets countrywide until further notice as a precautionary measure.

France’s antitrust watchdog slapped a €500-million fine on Google on Tuesday for failing to comply with the regulator’s orders on how to conduct talks with the country’s news publishers in a row over copyright.

The rand dropped to a three-month low on Tuesday as concerns grew over escalating violence in the country following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma.

Protesters clashed with police in several areas of South Africa and looters ransacked shopping malls on Tuesday as frustrations over poverty and inequality boiled over into the country’s worst unrest in years.

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