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Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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Vodacom South Africa has said it has seen a spike in battery theft and vandalism at its base stations in some provinces.
Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, has more than doubled this year.
The annual inflation rate slowed sharply to 2.8% in October, data showed on Wednesday.
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Those of us committed to a growing and digital future will be watching parliament closely on Thursday and Friday.
The 122m-tall rocket system, designed to land astronauts on the moon and ferry crews to Mars, lifted off at midnight SAST.
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Activision Blizzard has extended the deadline for the close of its $69-billion takeover by Microsoft to October.
Meta is giving businesses a powerful, free-of-charge alternative to pricey proprietary models sold by OpenAI and Google.
ASML’s orders rose in the second quarter, signalling optimism that a slump in the semiconductor industry may be nearing an end.
AI will never replace human influence in preventing terrorist attacks, the chief of the UK’s overseas spy agency MI6 will say.
Get ready, TV fans, because the next few months are going to be wild. Deep-pocketed giants are spending billions of dollars on so much new streaming content that there will be little reason to leave your couch this summer.
Earlier this week, FNB customers woke up to a huge inconvenience: the online banking system now requires you to manually type your password. However, this will actually make this problem worse, not better. By Alistair Fairweather.

































