Chery has agreed to acquire Nissan’s Pretoria plant, opening the door for Chinese vehicle manufacturing in South Africa.
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Digital IDs will form the foundation for other government departments to digitise their services.
Watts & Wheels explores the rapid rise of Chinese brands in South Africa, BMW’s response and the future of local manufacturing.
Telecoms industry lobbyists claim Europe’s latest regulatory moves show the “Fair Share” debate is far from settled.
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Scientists claim to have created the world’s first living robots using stem cells from frog embryos. The tiny hybrids are “entirely new lifeforms” known as xenobots and are able to move about.
State-owned power producer Eskom will be the “death knell” for South Africa’s mining industry unless the government enables mines to produce their own electricity, according to Exxaro Resources CEO Mxolisi Mgojo.
MTN Nigeria Communications surged by 10% in Lagos on Monday, the most allowed by the exchange and matching the biggest gain since its May market debut.
Massmart plans to close the 23-store DionWired chain of hi-tech appliance shops as well as 11 Masscash wholesale outlets, a spokesman said by phone on Monday.
Retail group Massmart Group, whose assets include Makro, Game and DionWired, warned on Monday that it’s likely to close a range of stores affecting the jobs of nearly 1 500 employees.
Shares in Telkom have rocketed more than 21% since reaching a multi-year low in intraday trading last Thursday, signalling that investors believe the sell-off was overdone.
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The 2016 presidential race was a powerful illustration of the influence that Internet services have to shape the national political conversation. Yet in the end, many of the people involved in technology didn’t get what they wanted
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Business software maker SAP introduced the most significant update to its database software in five years, which includes new tools for analysing the stream of data being created by smart sensors
An influence-peddling scandal shadowing Korean President Park Geun-hye is raising fresh questions about decades of cozy ties between the nation’s big conglomerates and those in power. Successive governments
