Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
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Google on Saturday said it has postponed next week’s planned unveiling of the beta version of its latest Android 11 mobile operating system in light of protests and unrest in the US.
The Interdepartmental Fintech Working Group has just released a draft of its policy position paper on crypto assets. Proposals aim to severely limit anonymous transactions in online.
South Africa will ease lockdown rules next month, allowing millions of people to return to work even as new coronavirus infections continue to climb.
Co-operative governance minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has published the final level-3 lockdown regulations, governing what South Africans may and may not do from 1 June. Read them here in full.
The Public Investment Corp has submitted a proposal to government on converting bonds it holds in struggling state utility Eskom into equity, PIC chairman Reuel Khoza said in an interview.
Eskom expects only three days of stage-1 power cuts, where up to 1GW is taken off the national grid, during the winter period when demand increases, the CEO said on Wednesday.
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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
