The rand plunged by almost 8% against the dollar on Monday as investors fled riskier assets, with tumbling oil prices adding to nervousness spurred by the spreading coronavirus.

A metal best known for galvanising steel is making the jump into a developing $30-billion energy-storage market for electrical grids that’s increasingly seen as key to unleashing solar and wind power upon the world.

Promoted | A Forrester study predicts that by 2030, automation, robotics and AI will have resulted in 80% of jobs being transformed. Yet most C-level technology and business leaders haven’t mastered new technologies or change management.

Vodacom and the Competition Commission have reached a settlement agreement over data prices following the regulator’s publication in December of surprisingly broad-ranging, tough and radical interventions in the data services market.

The South African government is adequately prepared to contain the spread of the coronavirus, with only a single case confirmed so far, health minister Zweli Mkhize said.

Health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Saturday that a second case of a novel coronavirus infection in South Africa has been identified – this time in Gauteng.

The Competition Commission instructed mobile operators to adjust their pricing in a bid to reduce digital inequality in the country. This is likely to have mixed outcomes. By Alison Gillwald.

The South by Southwest arts and technology festival in Texas has been cancelled due to fears about the coronavirus outbreak.

Eskom warned that its maintenance plan must be supported by the government or South Africa can expect regular blackouts from power cuts of 8GW by mid-2021, a move that would cripple the economy.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he will reconsider working remotely from Africa in 2020 due to the coronavirus and “everything else going on”.