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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The troubles facing financially distressed mobile operator Cell C have taken a dramatic turn. TechCentral received this open letter from CEO Douglas Craigie Stevenson on Wednesday evening, which we publish here in full.
Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has promised – like so many of her predecessors – to fast-track South Africa’s migration from analogue to digital terrestrial television. Will this time be different?
Former State IT Agency boss Setumo Mohapi will take over as CEO of Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions with immediate effect, replacing long-serving CEO Saki Missaikos. The move comes amid a major management shake-up at Dimension Data MEA.
Facebook is to begin releasing experimental apps to the public as part of new product development plans.
South African business leaders are becoming frustrated with the pace of reform under President Cyril Ramaphosa. His cabinet choices and spending pledges haven’t helped.
South Africa’s troubled state-owned power utility has yet another thing to worry about – a big carbon tax bill expected to kick in from 2023.
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Kenya’s biggest mobile operator, Safaricom, has said it will stop selling feature phones in its own retail stores in an effort to increase smartphone penetration and bolster the East African country’s digital content market. Corporate affairs director Nzioka Waita made the surprising announcement at the Mobile Web East Africa conference
The Bank of Tanzania says mobile financial services regulations aimed at improving the oversight of mobile payments and the service providers that facilitate them are expected in June. The central bank drafted the regulations last year in what it says is a bid to enhance the sector’s stability and
Founded in 1998, Canada’s Communitech is the sort of start-up incubator and new business creator any country would dream of. What started as a small group of entrepreneurs looking to support one another and other new businesses, the Communitech network now includes more than
Sales of digital set-top boxes, which went on sale last month in Kenya, have been sluggish. The boxes are required to convert digital terrestrial broadcasting signals so that that the East African country can switch off analogue broadcasts before the International Telecommunication
