While EVs remain the focus in this episode of Watts & Wheels, the conversation also turns to something far less planet-friendly.
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The Ilitha Telecoms CEO has argued that meaningful connectivity is what South Africa needs to unlock economic participation.
The partnership aims to use the scale of the SABC Plus platform to expand the reach of Microsoft’s AI training programmes.
Frogfoot has expanded its footprint in KwaZulu-Natal through the acquisition of fibre assets from Mitsol.
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The only fair and sensible approach is to immediately suspend e-tolling in Gauteng and reimburse consumers who have paid e-tolls since 2013, says the Automobile Association.
Finance minister Tito Mboweni says government borrowing will surge and taxes may rise to fund the troubled Eskom. Yet no plan has been announced to restructure the overstaffed company.
Naspers said on Thursday that it’s leading a new investment round, worth $30-million, in Polish-founded peer-to-peer learning community Brainly. Other investors are Runa Capital and Manta Ray.
The ransomware attack that has crippled City Power’s IT systems holds valuable lessons for companies about disaster management and backup, a Swiss-based software specialist has said.
South Africa’s decision to more than double its financial support for Eskom is “credit negative” for the sovereign rating as it’s an additional drain on the budget, Moody’s Investors Service said.
Microsoft’s cloud-orientated productivity suite, Office 365, is now being delivered locally through the software giant’s new South African data centres.
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Kenya’s capital city is to receive a “smart system” of digital traffic lights and closed-circuit television cameras as part of an integrated security and traffic control system. The city, which is notorious for its traffic jams, is dependent on enormous numbers of traffic police officers for directing traffic, particularly
Botswana has switched on digital terrestrial television, beating South Africa, its big neighbour to the south, to launch digital broadcasts. However, unlike most other countries in the region, Botswana has opted for a Japanese standard for its roll-out. South Africa spent a year working with its
Vodacom is selling more than a thousand of its base stations in Tanzania to tower operator Helios in a deal worth about US$75m, according to a UK media report. This is the first time that Vodacom has sold tower infrastructure to a third party, the Financial Times newspaper reported at the weekend. Its South African
Online and mobile transactions have for the first time surpassed card payments in Zimbabwe after recording 28,3% growth in the month of May. According to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s May 2013 monthly economic review, the value of mobile and Internet-based transactions rose from US$283,6m in April to
