Technology companies are a lot like contemporary art. Their valuations reflect narratives more than anything else, and it’s just as important to devise the right framework to describe a phenomenon as it is to build a beautiful product. Two New

Remember those dark days when load shedding wreaked havoc on households and businesses? Well, it was a year on Thursday since large parts of South Africa were plunged into darkness. And Eskom is patting itself on the back for doing its job of keeping the

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South Africa’s telecommunications & postal services ministry filed a suit to block the sale of more than R12bn of wireless spectrum by the industry regulator, potentially depriving mobile carriers in the country of much-needed capacity to increase high-speed

Apple is preparing to unveil successors to the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus as early as next month with more advanced photography capabilities and upgraded hardware in a design similar to that of last year’s

Picketing action by striking workers at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has stretched into a sixth week. Workers are demanding salary increases backdated to 2015 and bonus pay

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Imagine you woke up to discover a massive cyberattack on your country. All government data has been destroyed, taking out healthcare records, birth certificates, social care

Stranger Things is the newest binge-worthy series on Netflix. Set during the winter of 1983 in the fictional township of Hawkins, Indiana, its eight episodes tell the story of a boy’s disappearance and the