Apple led the market with a 20% share, the largest among the top five brands, according to Counterpoint Research.
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Starlink’s proposed entry into South Africa is facing mounting political backlash, driven by concerns over owner Elon Musk’s conduct and public statements.
Many of South Africa’s listed tech companies performed well in 2025, with some growing their share prices by over 70%.
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Tensions are rising at Eskom, with the struggling state-owned electricity supplier confirming protests at several power plants following a breakdown in wage negotiations.
South Africa has repealed restrictions on mask-wearing in indoor public spaces, limits on the size of gatherings and entry requirements at its borders.
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A powerful cold front, which has caused temperatures to plummet across South Africa, has forced Eskom to escalate load shedding to include daytime cuts.
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South Africa’s headline consumer inflation quickened more than expected to 6.5% year on year in May from 5.9% in April.
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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.
Shares of Tesla ended down 3.1% on Monday, tapping the brakes on a rally that has boosted the electric car maker’s stock by over 40% in two weeks.
The UK is poised to ban Huawei Technologies from its next-generation mobile networks under a two-step plan to protect critical systems from security threats, a person familiar with the matter said.
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
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