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Fewer learners studying mathematics at school level threatens South Africa’s economic competitiveness.
Investment is pouring into renewable energy, but grid expansion will determine whether momentum can be sustained.
Women’s groups, tech watchdogs and progressive activists are calling on Google and Apple to remove the apps.
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Eskom has welcomed the sentencing of three cable thieves, who stole at least 564kg of its aluminium overhead conductor cable.
BMW has taken flak for weeks after beginning to sell owners in certain markets subscriptions to heat their seats. It’s not backing down.
The SABC and e.tv have accused Sentech of excessive pricing and anticompetitive behaviour, and asked Icasa to intervene urgently.
US investors with more than $1-trillion of assets under management are in South Africa to look for investment opportunities.
Apple expects to delay its next major iPad software update by about a month, an unusual step by the Californian consumer electronics giant.
Criminals, angry that they aren’t able to steal MTN’s highly secured batteries, have taken to trashing other infrastructure at its base stations.
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Apple became the first publicly listed US company with a $2-trillion stock market value on Wednesday, as Wall Street investors put aside challenges to its iPhone ecosystem.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has raised $1.9-billion in new funding, according to a regulatory filing. This would be the largest single fundraising round to date by SpaceX, according to PitchBook data.
China has denounced the US’s latest moves to curb Huawei’s access to commercially available chips, the latest blow in an increasingly tense relationship between the world’s two biggest economies.
Tongwei has halted output at a polysilicon factory in China because of flooding, the latest blow to the solar supply chain that has seen rare cost increases this summer due to disruptions.
Leigh-Ann Fowle, 29, founded the Johannesburg chapter of the Girl Geek Dinners in 2011. She wanted to network more in the technology industry, but found there were no events in the city aimed specifically at women. So, after finding out about
The capacity of today’s wireless communications networks has increased a million-fold since the introduction of the first cellular network in 1957. But this improvement isn’t due to improving connectivity technologies such as Wi-Fi, 2G, 3G and so on, which

































