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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Government will relinquish control of the loss-making national airline and give it an additional bailout in a bid to stave off liquidation.
Dimension Data has sold its iconic office complex in northern Johannesburg, known as The Campus, to a consortium of black women investors, and announced a major employee share scheme.
MTN Group on Wednesday issued a statement to investors in which it criticised the Competition Commission’s final report on the data services market in South Africa, saying it will “vigorously defend against over-broad and intrusive recommendations” by the commission.
The Uber rival said on Wednesday that it has doubled its South African footprint in the past year, launching ride-hailing services in 34 secondary towns and cities in all nine provinces, and will now launch food delivery services.
The US has been warning other countries not to buy telecommunications gear from China’s Huawei and ZTE. The government will soon put real money behind the effort.
After a massive selloff on Monday, shares of South Africa’s biggest listed telecommunications companies continued to trade lower into Tuesday.
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SpaceX and federal investigators are poring over a few milliseconds of data as they probe why a blaze destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket and satellite on a Florida launchpad two days before a scheduled flight. The space exploration company founded by
The European Union’s ruling that Apple must pay the Irish tax authorities €13bn in back taxes appears to be a victory for fair tax campaigners. The amount is equal to about 30% of the total tax take in Ireland, or almost €7 000 for every employee in the
David Drummond, the chief legal officer at Google parent company Alphabet, has stepped down from Uber Technologies’ board of directors as the two companies move further into each other’s territories. Drummond joined the board in 2013 when
Apple was ordered to repay a record €13bn (US$14,5bn; R210bn) plus interest after the European Commission said Ireland illegally slashed the iPhone maker’s tax bill. The world’s richest company benefited from a “selective tax treatment” in
