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 is offering workers a 7% wage increase after the utility lost units during illegal protests that plunged South Africa into the worst blackouts since 2019, sources said.
Eskom and trade unions cited progress in talks to end a strike that has caused South Africa’s worst power cuts in more than two years.
The constitutional court gave communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni a bloody nose on Tuesday after it sided with e.tv in a high-stakes legal battle.
Eskom has announced that for only the second time in history, the country will be subjected to stage-6 load shedding.
Eskom has warned that there is a “very real risk” of stage-6 load shedding during the evening peak on Tuesday as an illegal strike at Eskom intensifies and turns violent.
A plan by Tencent’s major backer, Naspers-controlled Prosus, to further cut its stake in the company fuelled concerns among investors on Tuesday.
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It was sold as an all-or-nothing moonshot into space, the boldest pay package in corporate history. Now, with Tesla’s stock on a seemingly unstoppable rise, Elon Musk is poised to collect $2.4-billion.
Tesla’s eye-popping run has left stock prognosticators in the dust, brought smaller imitators along for the ride and triggered a race by entrants new and old to cash in.
Apple is getting close to overtaking Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company in market valuation, a milestone that would make the technology giant the world’s largest company by that measure.
India’s richest man surged past Silicon Valley tech titan Elon Musk as well as Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to become the world’s sixth-richest person.
In South Africa, as in many countries, the release of senior secondary school exam results, referred to locally as “the matric”, causes a media furore every year. At 18 years old, students either pass or fail and their results are published in
It was another busy year in South Africa’s technology industry. From the drama at the SABC to the drama over the splitting of the department of communications, it’s been an interesting news year, but a frustrating one for the sector. We know what our favourite stories were in 2014
