South Africa’s SKA-Mid telescope comes alive as “first fringes” confirm it is now a working scientific instrument.
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Watts & Wheels is back – EVs, Chinese challengers, mega chargers and petrol rebels collide in the new season’s first episode.
As television turns 50 in South Africa, streaming, smartphones and social media are redefining how content is created and consumed.
South African owners of 372 of Volvo’s popular EX30 model have been urged to pay close attention to a safety recall.
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Health minister Zweli Mkhize has warned that tighter lockdowns may be needed in some parts of the country as a surge in Covid-19 cases is expected in the coming weeks.
Ahead of the launch later on Tuesday by MTN South Africa of its 5G network, the mobile operator has updated its coverage maps, showing where the superfast technology is available.
South African shares are about to round off their strongest quarter in almost two decades, and the influence of the coronavirus pandemic is clear to see in the shares most responsible for driving the market higher.
Uber Technologies is in talks to purchase food delivery service Postmates for about US$2.6-billion, Dow Jones reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
MTN has rolled out a new feature of its Mobile Money service that will allow South African consumers to make purchases online using their MoMo wallets – no bank card required.
Thousands of people have been testing positive for Covid-19 daily since the relaxation of the hard lockdown to make room for economic activity.
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Netflix has suspended production of House of Cards following a sexual harassment allegation against star Kevin Spacey, putting the future of the company’s defining show in jeopardy. Production of the sixth and final
Jan du Plessis is moving from one tough job to another, as the departing chairman of Rio Tinto Group takes up the same post at troubled telecommunications carrier BT Group on Wednesday. At the world’s
Tokyo-based electronics maker Sony, which has staged a turnaround following a string of losses about a decade ago, increased its annual operating profit outlook to a record ¥630bn ($5.6bn) from ¥500bn for the current fiscal year to
Apple is designing iPhones and iPads for 2018 that don’t use components from Qualcomm amid an escalating dispute between the companies, according to a person familiar with the matter. The product plans are in the early stages and
Former Vodacom Group CEO Alan Knott-Craig’s biography, Second is Nothing, is a riveting — and sometimes explosive — account of the early days of cellular telecommunications in…
International telecommunications is an expensive business. Maintaining the networks of hundreds of thousands of kilometres of undersea fibre-optic cables that span the planet is a daunting task…

































