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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Telkom on Tuesday rubbished talk among some JSE traders that it is planning a hostile bid for Cell C.
Takealot expects Black Friday sales to rise by about 80% to R352-million this year. The online retail group sees the last Friday of November as a key driver and measure of its growth in South Africa.
Bond investors aren’t showing much faith in Eskom’s new boss, with yields on the company’s 2021 dollar bonds jumping the most in more than three months after the appointment of André de Ruyter.
After months of speculation and delays, South Africa named André de Ruyter as CEO of its debt-crippled state power utility, surprising investors with an unexpected choice and angering a key union.
The largest cryptocurrency’s slide snowballed on Monday, with the price dropping as much as 5% to test the key $8 000 level, which it hasn’t breached since the end of October.
The share price of Telkom tumbled on Monday morning while Blue Label Telecoms rose after MTN South Africa and Cell C announced they had signed a massively expanded roaming deal.
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Jeff Bezos just snuck past Warren Buffett to become the third richest person on Earth. The Amazon.com founder’s net worth was US$65,05bn on Thursday (R923bn at the time of writing), topping Buffett by $32m on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index
BlackBerry CEO John Chen has presided over five new phones during his two-and-a-half years running the company, none of which has managed to turn around steadily declining smartphone sales. Some analysts are wondering who would buy a sixth. BlackBerry
Eight-year-old Lillian looks nervously at her king. It’s stuck; hemmed in on F3 by her opponent’s castle and queen. Two moves later, it’s all over. Checkmate. She looks around, despondently. Behind her around 20 other youngsters hunch over their chess boards
At some point, everyone knew, Netflix’s subscriber growth in the US had to slow down. The company’s video streaming service is nearing market saturation among its core demographic
