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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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Futuregrowth Asset Management, a South African fixed-income money manager with R193-billion of assets, is raising a fund to invest in start-ups.
The rand tumbled on Thursday to its lowest level since October 2020 as electricity cuts renewed pressure on the currency.
The crisis at Eskom is getting worse, with the state-owned utility set to implement stage-6 power cuts until midnight on Friday.
Growthpoint Properties has said it’s running out of diesel to operate generators at some of its buildings as the country grapples with the escalating crisis at Eskom.
Nkwe Platinum and South Africa Zijin Platinum have contracted MTN and Huawei to build what the parties are calling Southern Africa’s first 5G-enabled “smart metal mine”.
The Internet service provider industry in South Africa is fed up with confusing regulations from communications regulator Icasa over ownership rules.
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As Twitter grapples with the worst-ever security breach, it must now uncover whether its employees were victims of sophisticated phishing or if they deliberately allowed hackers to access high-profile accounts.
A $20-billion fund-raising spree may take India’s Reliance closer to its dream of becoming a digital giant, further threatening the plans of US companies such as Amazon.com, Walmart and Zoom.
Fahim Saleh, the 33-year-old founder and CEO of Nigerian start-up Gokada, was found dead Tuesday afternoon at his Manhattan condominium.
Twitter said hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack some of the platform’s top voices and used them to solicit digital currency.
There is no quick fix for the rolling blackouts, Eskom’s financial issues and its maintenance backlog, so South Africans will have to learn to “live with it”, an energy sector analyst said on Friday
Power utility Eskom is 21 days from going broke, the minister of public enterprises has confirmed. “Eskom will run out of money by the end of January,” minister Lynne Brown said this week. Brown confirmed the “pressure on the company’s liquidity

































