Bitcoin climbed to the highest since November after breaching the $8 000 price level. Concerns about an escalation in the conflict between the US and Iran are seen as contributing to the rally.

Orange, France’s biggest phone company, has picked BNP Paribas and Morgan Stanley to advise on a proposed initial public offering of its Middle East and Africa business, sources say.

South Africa’s school pass rate rose for a fourth consecutive year to the highest since the end of apartheid. Yet the quality of South Africa’s education system continues to lag.

How Huawei survived the US blacklisting could prove a case study in unintended consequences and a vast shift underway in global IT production.

Eskom will implement stage-2 load shedding in the early hours of Wednesday, later than it might otherwise have done so, to “accommodate the release of the matric results”.

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After shedding 8% of their workforce last year, Zimbabwean banks may cut more jobs in 2020 as the economy shrivels and the sector increasingly shifts away from cash and toward digital services.

SpaceX has launched 60 more mini Internet satellites, this time testing a dark coating to appease stargazers.

Promoted | Huawei recently announced that its new smartphones will be pre-installed with the Huawei Mobile Services ecosystem, which is an alternative to consumers.

Lenovo Group has showed off the inside of its foldable, $2 499 ThinkPad computer, which goes on sale mid-year, in order to instil confidence in a category that has had some technological setbacks.