Households will not be able to choose who sells them electricity when South Africa’s competitive electricity market opens.
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Tesla picks Morocco over South Africa, Google’s Gemini arrives in Volvos and Tracker CEO Dillan Fernando is in studio.
MTN Group faces a R3.9-billion write-down, cash it cannot move and a stake it cannot sell, just as Washington escalates.
MTN South Africa cut airtime credit from 42% of prepaid recharges to about 34% over the past year.
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eMedia Holdings has filed papers against MultiChoice in the high court, MultiChoice confirmed on Sunday.
Cell C has reportedly failed to cough up the R288-million it owes Icasa for its participation in 2022’s spectrum auction.
Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said significant progress has been made regarding electricity generation.
South Africa’s transition away from coal has been marred by the botched approach to the closure of Komati.
A new law signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa will allow state-owned Postbank to become a fully fledged bank.
Telkom has appointed Transnet’s Nonkululeko Dlamini as its new group chief financial officer with effect from 1 December.
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Pony Ma pledged $7.7-billion towards curing societal ills and lifting China’s countryside out of poverty, echoing Xi Jinping’s priorities at a time Beijing is tightening its grip on Internet giants.
A Tesla electric car that “no one” appeared to be driving crashed late on Saturday in Texas in the US, erupting into flames and killing the two passengers, according to local authorities.
Nasa conducted its first flight on another planet on Monday. It was a short hop for a small chopper named Ingenuity but it demonstrated technology that could prove critical to the future of space exploration.
It’s getting crowded up there, and awfully dangerous. By up there, I mean space – and not the far-off areas that concern astronomers and science fiction.
Cell C intends listing on the JSE within the next few years to unlock value for shareholders and staff. This comes in the wake of news this week that Blue Label Telecoms has tabled an offer to acquire a 35% stake in South Africa’s third mobile operator for R4bn
Vodacom acquisition target Neotel must table a roaming offer to all mobile operators interested in access to its spectrum before the two parties return to the Competition Commission to seek approval of the newly restructured deal. This follows a pre-hearing meeting at the

































