South Africa plans to announce a R350-billion infrastructure programme after talks with the private sector and multilateral lenders, said Paul Mashatile, the treasurer-general of the ANC.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to regulate or shut down social media companies, one day after Twitter added a warning to some of his tweets.

Analyst firm Gartner has cancelled the South African leg of its IT Symposium/Xpo event, which was due to take place in Cape Town in October, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Health minister Zweli Mkhize has blamed an outdated slide in a presentation on Wednesday for creating fear that some parts of South Africa would remain on level-4 lockdown on 1 June.

Vodacom has zero-rated access to What3words, the technology service that’s mapped the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares, in an effort to make it easier for people to get access to emergency services.

Huawei Technologies chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou was dealt a setback by a Canadian court on Wednesday as she tries to avoid extradition to the US to face bank fraud charges.

Nasa and SpaceX are preparing for the first manned launch to take off from American soil since 2011. Watch the livestream here.

TikTok parent company ByteDance generated more than $17-billion in revenue and more than $3-billion in net profit last year, making it a serious rival to Facebook and Google.

JSE-listed international technology group Datatec has reported strong full-year results for the year ended February 2020, though the good performance happened before the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A pair of Donald Trump’s tweets that made unsubstantiated claims about mail-in voting were appended on Tuesday with links pointing readers to news stories fact-checking him.