Teraco used 399GWh of electricity in 2025, three times its 2021 figure, with a new solar facility now due to come online next year.
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South Africa’s financial services sector regulator has debarred Africa Bitcoin Corporation CEO Warren Wheatley.
South Africans will spend R159-billion online this year, but the growth rate is set to fall from 35.4% to 22.5%.
Canal+ is redrawing its DStv bundles, moving M-Net down-tier and offering sport as a separate choice.
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South Africa could face protests similar to those that toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011, the head of a leading business lobby group warned.
Lenovo Group reported a 24% revenue decline for the third quarter, its largest revenue fall in 14 years.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has defended his plans to appoint a minister of electricity in his office.
Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the cost to communicate in South Africa is “not decreasing at the pace that government wants”.
The SABC is Sentech’s biggest client. But that’s not stopping the state-owned signal distributor from formulating plans to compete with it.
The new electricity minister will assume full responsibility for overseeing all aspects of the country’s response to crippling power cuts, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.
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Microsoft said on Friday it would close its retail stores and take a related pretax asset impairment charge of US$450-million in the current quarter.
Two “super-Earths” have been discovered orbiting one of the brightest red dwarf stars in the sky. About half as big as the sun, GJ 887 is just 11 light years away.
Verizon Communications said on Thursday it was pausing advertising on Facebook in support of a campaign that called out the social media giant for not doing enough to stop hate speech on its platforms.
Amazon.com has agreed to pay over $1-billion to buy self-driving start-up Zoox, according to a report. It would would expand its reach in autonomous vehicle technology.
Commercial broadcaster e.tv has raised concerns about the state of television in South Africa, pointing to what it says is the long-term decline of free-to-air TV, especially in the independent commercial free-to-air segment
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