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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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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China’s ZTE has blasted the US government decision to impose a seven-year ban on its purchases of crucial American components, calling the move “extremely unfair” and “unacceptable”. The Shenzhen-based communications
Elon Musk has famously quipped he’d like to die on Mars, but the satellite his company just launched for Nasa could put even more distant planets on his radar. SpaceX sent to orbit on Wednesday a planet-hunter
Facebook is building a team to design its own semiconductors, adding to a trend among technology companies to supply themselves and lower their dependence on chip makers such as Intel and Qualcomm
Globalisation has brought the most advanced trading networks the world has seen, with the biggest, fastest vessels, robot-operated ports and vast computer databases tracking cargoes. But it all still relies on
A top regulatory expert has lambasted the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) over its planned auction of spectrum for wireless broadband services, saying the process is…
Skyrove, a specialist wireless hotspot company, plans to launch an audacious bid for national radio frequency spectrum and, if it gets it, it plans to build a network to take on the country’s incumbent mobile operators. The company, run by CEO Henk Kleynhans, plans to participate in an auction for national radio frequency in the 2,6GHz ba

































