South Africa has a curious habit of legislating fantasies and then acting surprised when the real economy ignores them.
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Confusion in the electrical sector has led to claims that all Schuko plugs and sockets are banned. This is not true.
Novus Holdings is vowing to fight a Takeover Regulation Panel ruling that it must increase its offer to Mustek shareholders.
Fifty years after television’s arrival in South Africa, the SABC faces hard questions about relevance, funding and its mandate.
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A small LED torch that emits deep red light and costs just R260 to make could help improve declining eyesight, scientists have said.
Finance minister Tito Mboweni said national treasury has no plans to boost income tax, corporate tax or VAT even as the coronavirus decimates the nation’s finances.
Zimbabwe on Friday suspended trade on the stock exchange and mobile phone-based payments to address what President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government called “criminality and economic sabotage”.
Vodacom Group has appointed an interim chief financial officer to replace Till Streichert, who is leaving the telecommunications firm at the end of the month.
MTN Group said on Thursday that it has topped 100 million active data customers – technically, 100 million Sims with an active data connection – for the first time.
Google has adjusted its privacy settings so that it retains less user data in an effort to keep personal information safe.
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Apple briefly became the US’s first $900bn company on the day its stores around the world were inundated with customers trying to get their hands on the new iPhone X. Demand for the handset, which boasts a facial recognition
Apple is fixing supply problems with the iPhone X, its most important device in years, setting the company up for a better-than-expected holiday period. Supported by resurgent iPad and Mac sales, the 10-year anniversary iPhone will
US President Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account went down abruptly for about 11 minutes on Thursday evening, a brief deactivation the social media company blamed on an employee who was heading out the door. Attempts to
The speculation around bitcoin is the “very definition of a bubble”, Credit Suisse Group CEO Tidjane Thiam said as the currency exceeded US$7 000 for the first time. “From what we can identify, the only reason today to buy or sell bitcoin
JSE-listed cellular communications group Vodacom will build two new data centres, one in Nigeria in West Africa and another in East Africa, probably in Tanzania, as it…
ECN Telecommunications is in talks with a number of large international mobile operators with a view to setting up a cellular carrier in SA that will compete…
