Catching even a fraction of the upside will be a deliberate act of statecraft, not a stroke of luck.
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Eskom has escalated load shedding to stage 6, equal to the worst blackouts it has ever imposed, between 4pm and 5am daily.
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Keabetswe Modimoeng, the former chairman of Icasa, has joined pay-television broadcaster MultiChoice in a senior role.
Government does not see the need for now to implement any new Covid-19 restrictions in South Africa, health minister Joe Phaahla said.
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Twitter said several of its employees were manipulated by hackers into providing credentials for internal systems, and 130 Twitter accounts were targeted including those of Joe Biden, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
Twitter disclosed late on Thursday that hackers targeted about 130 accounts during the cyberattack this week, an incident in which profiles of many prominent people were compromised.
Netflix on Thursday elevated its content chief Ted Sarandos to co-CEO, making the 20-year veteran of the pioneering streaming video service a clear successor to co-founder Reed Hastings.
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.
Telkom has denied that it is underinvesting in its network after the company revealed on Monday that its capital expenditure in the six months to 30 September 2014 fell sharply, with capex-to-revenue coming in well below guidance provided previously. This fall in capex prompted analysts on Monday
The excitement over the potentially transformative effects of the Internet in low-income countries is nowhere more evident than in East Africa — the last major populated region of the world to gain a wired connection to the Internet. Before 2009, there wasn’t a single fibre-optic cable connecting the region
