Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
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Eskom has implemented power cuts on 100 days in 2022, with more to come.
eMedia Holdings’ free-to-air satellite platform, Openview, has topped three million activations, nine years after launch.
South Africa’s biggest telecommunications operators have called for more consultation over government’s plan to terminate 2G and 3G services by 2025.
Eskom has spent R7.7-billion over the past six months burning diesel in efforts to ease rolling blackouts.
African Rainbow Capital Investments has attached a valuation to wireless Internet operator Rain of R17.9-billion, a 7.9% increase over last year’s figure.
Old Mutual wealth has been appointed to handle the cash reserves that back ZARP, the cryptocurrency stablecoin pegged to the value of the rand.
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US President Donald Trump asked a San Francisco judge to stay an injunction blocking a ban on Tencent’s WeChat, arguing the Chinese-owned messaging app jeopardises national security.
The US has imposed restrictions on exports to China’s biggest chip maker, SMIC, after concluding there is an “unacceptable risk” equipment supplied to it could be used for military purposes.
The world’s first flight by a “commercially available aircraft” powered by hydrogen fuel cells has been heralded as a milestone in the development of sustainable aviation.
A group of Apple’s critics, including Spotify and Epic Games, have joined a non-profit group that plans to advocate for legal and regulatory action to challenge the iPhone maker’s App Store practices.
South Africa’s big three mobile operators have taken a “short-term view to satisfy their shareholders” by increasing the price of their post-paid packages, a decision that could come back to haunt them in the longer term. That’s one of the conclusions
“This is the way the world ends,” writes TS Eliot in The Hollow Men, his masterful poem about death and dying. I’m sitting in the load shedding-induced silence, thinking about this remarkable poem
