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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South Africa stands to lose five years of potential economic output due to the shock from the coronavirus pandemic and measures to curb its spread, according to the Reserve Bank.
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Health minister Zweli Mkhize has blamed an outdated slide in a presentation on Wednesday for creating fear that some parts of South Africa would remain on level-4 lockdown on 1 June.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.
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Google faces a Tuesday deadline to tell the European Union how it plans to comply with an order to stop discriminating against rival shopping search services under threat of new fines that would add to a record €2.4bn
pple CEO Tim Cook collected 560 000 shares, half of them linked to the company’s performance and the maximum allowed under the iPhone maker’s long-term compensation programme. The award was worth $89.2m
Uber Technologies will appoint Expedia’s Dara Khosrowshahi to run the global ride-hailing leviathan, two people familiar with the matter have said. He’ll succeed co-founder Travis Kalanick, who led the firm to US$20bn in annual bookings
Fitbit desperately needs a hit. The company unveiled its first smartwatch on Monday, hoping that the health-focused features of the device will reverse the hardware maker’s declining influence in the wearables market
