The rand ended 2025 nearly 13% stronger against the US dollar, marking its biggest annual gain in 16 years.
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South Africa has a curious habit of legislating fantasies and then acting surprised when the real economy ignores them.
This Monday marks 50 years since television was officially launched in South Africa – on 5 January 1976.
Groupe Canal+ and Warner Bros Discovery have struck a last-minute agreement to keep channels like CNN on DStv.
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The banking group spent R7.5-billion on IT licences, maintenance and related costs in the 2019 financial year, up 17%, due to the weaker rand and costs associated with its move to the cloud.
The novel coronavirus has hit South African shores. The ministry of health said in a statement on Thursday that a suspected case of Covid-19, as the virus is called, has tested positive.
Policy documents in national treasury’s 2020 budget review suggest government will soon significantly relax controls over the export of South African-owned intellectual property.
Police have arrested five suspects belonging to one of South Africa’s largest battery theft syndicates, mobile operator Vodacom said on Thursday.
Data centre operator Teraco’s Internet exchange point NAPAfrica has topped 1Tbit/s, or a million megabits per second, of peak traffic for the first time.
Standard Bank will soon begin moving its operational SAP banking systems onto the Microsoft Azure cloud platform as it looks to create what it calls an “always-on bank”.
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Elon Musk’s Tesla briefly surpassed General Motors to become America’s most valuable car maker, eclipsing a company whose well-being was once viewed as interdependent with the nation’s. A week after topping Ford, Tesla climbed
It’s time for the humans to have another Go. An artificial intelligence program romped to a lopsided victory over South Korean Go master Lee Sedol in 2016. Now, Google DeepMind’s AI software is heading to the
A quarter of all miles driven in the US could be in shared, self-driving electric cars by the end of the next decade, setting off a seismic shift that will upend the car industry, according to a study on the rise of the autonomous age. A convergence of
The US order prohibiting passengers from carrying laptop computers and other electronics into the cabins of some overseas flights is raising concerns about a risk unrelated to terror: the potential for those devices’ lithium-based batteries
