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Fewer learners studying mathematics at school level threatens South Africa’s economic competitiveness.
Investment is pouring into renewable energy, but grid expansion will determine whether momentum can be sustained.
Women’s groups, tech watchdogs and progressive activists are calling on Google and Apple to remove the apps.
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South Africa plans to announce a R350-billion infrastructure programme after talks with the private sector and multilateral lenders, said Paul Mashatile, the treasurer-general of the ANC.
Analyst firm Gartner has cancelled the South African leg of its IT Symposium/Xpo event, which was due to take place in Cape Town in October, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Health minister Zweli Mkhize has blamed an outdated slide in a presentation on Wednesday for creating fear that some parts of South Africa would remain on level-4 lockdown on 1 June.
Vodacom has zero-rated access to What3words, the technology service that’s mapped the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, in an effort to make it easier for people to get access to emergency services.
Nasa and SpaceX are preparing for the first manned launch to take off from American soil since 2011. Watch the livestream here.
JSE-listed international technology group Datatec has reported strong full-year results for the year ended February 2020, though the good performance happened before the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Apple has set 12 September for its most significant new product announcement in years. The company plans to introduce three new iPhone models, a version of its Apple TV set-top box that can stream higher-quality, and a new
Tencent Music Entertainment Group, controlled by China’s biggest social network operator, is seeking new funding at a US$10bn valuation ahead of an initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said. The operator
One of Dara Khosrowshahi’s first tasks at Uber Technologies will be coming up with a new set of core principles. Uber’s board ripped up parts of the original list of 14 corporate values, authored years ago by
Google has had impressive augmented reality technology for years, but few ways to get millions of people using it. The company thinks it has software to fix that now. Tango, Google’s 3D mapping system launched as
