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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The Information Regulator has established online portals for public and private bodies to use to submit their Popia reports and to register their information officers.
Telkom and three state-owned enterprises have called for “drastic measures” to deal with infrastructure vandalism and theft in South Africa.
The Internet Service Providers’ Association has warned that draft regulations dealing with .za domains could damage the popular .za brand.
The US’s new restrictions on Nvidia selling advanced chips to Chinese customers threatens to deal a heavy blow to the country’s technological development.
The .ZA Domain Name Authority has appointed the ZA Registry Consortium as the registry operator for .za commercial second-level domains.
Cabinet has approved the replacement of the current Driving Licence Card to a one with more secure design features.
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A senior Chinese official has accused the US, which forced the sale of TikTok on national security grounds, of “economic bullying”, while lambasting European Union restrictions on Huawei.
ByteDance founder and CEO Yiming Zhang’s decision to drop his pursuit of a sale of TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft in favour of a partnership with Oracle was the culmination of weeks of pressure.
Google aims to power its data centres and offices solely with renewable energy by 2030, its CEO said, becoming the biggest company in the world to commit to ditching coal and natural gas power.
Nvidia’s $40-billion agreement to acquire ARM is likely to meet strong opposition from Nvidia’s chip industry rivals, analysts say, with murmurs of protest already emerging in South Korea and China.
While wind and solar power have made great strides in recent years, with renewables now accounting for 22% of electric energy generated, the issue that has held them back has been their transience. The sun doesn’t shine at night and the wind
Len de Villiers, Telkom’s chief information officer, says he enjoys a challenge. He says, too, that he’s a sucker for punishment. He’s certainly taking on a big challenge – and a punishing one – in
