President Cyril Ramaphosa cut short a trip abroad to deal with an escalating crisis at the state power company, as week-long blackouts threaten to tip the economy into recession.

Batteries that don’t have time to recover fully and criminals taking advantage of power cuts are two of the factors making life difficult for South Africa’s mobile networks as rolling blackouts continue into a sixth day.

Just Eat has rejected Naspers spin-off Prosus’s higher bid saying that the latest offer still significantly undervalues the company.

Zimbabwe’s state-owned Zesa Holdings escalated power cuts to as long as 24 hours after losing regional power imports and local generation capacity remains critically constrained.

A new computer module created by Bosch can be used to turn any pair of glasses into smartglasses, the company has claimed.

South Africa’s state power company intensified rolling blackouts to a record, signalling a deepening crisis at the debt-ridden utility and raising the risk of a second recession in as many years.