The deal makes MTN the second major South African operator to lean on the Chinese fintech giant for its super-app ambitions.
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The Technology Innovation Agency sold its Kapa stake for $4.9-million months before Roche bought the biotech for $445-million.
Eskom Green is targeting up to 32GW by 2040, with the board insisting it will partner private developers, not compete with them.
Battery-electric sales jumped 96% year on year in the first quarter, yet they remain a sliver of the market.
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NCP Chlorchem has embarked on one of South Africa’s biggest private industrial solar deployments.
PayShap adoption grows, but inconsistent bank fees and limited access still hinder its inclusion ambitions in South Africa.
Sanral has stopped supporting magnetic stripe payments at toll plazas ahead of the busy holiday period.
Thyspunt in the Eastern Cape and Bantamsklip in the Overberg are the proposed sites for a new nuclear power plant.
Samsung Electronics has unveiled its first multi-folding smartphone, the Galaxy Z TriFold.
A loss of key channels, including the Discovery Channel, could impact already falling subscriber numbers at DStv.
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Google and Meta Platforms have held discussions with major Hollywood studios about licensing content.
Google will start testing search and shopping ads in its AI-generated answers in the US.
If China invades Taiwan, ASML and TSMC have ways to disable the world’s most sophisticated chip-making machines.
Sonos is entering the headphones market, part of an effort to turn the company into a broader maker of consumer technology.
An extremely expensive game of one-upmanship is being played out in the semiconductor industry where the winners will look like heroes and the rest may not even survive.
Facebook employees have warned for years that it was failing to police abusive content in countries where such speech was likely to cause the most harm, according to internal company documents.
