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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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The rand extended its week’s losses on Thursday, as severe power cuts and deadly floods weighed on the economic growth outlook.
The collapse of Netflix shares on Wednesday is the latest drastic sign that investors are abandoning streaming services and other pandemic winners.
Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has dismissed any suggestion that the South African power grid is in immediate danger of a total system blackout.
New research shows South Africans actively dislike telecoms operators, with the industry ranked last in net customer sentiment, below banking, insurance and retail.
Eskom will later on Wednesday reduce to stage 3 the current bout of severe load shedding that is crippling South Africa’s economy.
Karpowership is expanding its generation capacity by 50% to tap global demand even as it struggles to get projects going in potentially its biggest market.
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The severity of Apple’s challenges amid the Covid-19 pandemic is starting to become clear. And it’s not looking good.
An asteroid more than a mile wide is set to make a pass by Earth on Wednesday, although scientists insist it poses no danger.
Alphabet said in a regulatory filing that CEO Sundar Pichai was awarded $281-million (R5.4-billion) in compensation last year, making him one of the world’s highest-paid executives.
Apple said it found no evidence of cyberattackers exploiting newly discovered vulnerabilities in the Mail app for iPhone and iPad, software used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
Communications regulator Icasa has settled on the model it intends using to calculate call termination rates as the court-imposed deadline nears for it to draw up new regulations that govern the rates, which operators charge each
The risks posed to human beings by artificial intelligence in no way resemble the popular image of the Terminator. That fictional mechanical monster is distinguished by many features – strength, armour, implacability, indestructability – but Arnie’s character lacks the one characteristic that we in the real world actually need to worry about: extreme

































