Chery has agreed to acquire Nissan’s Pretoria plant, opening the door for Chinese vehicle manufacturing in South Africa.
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Digital IDs will form the foundation for other government departments to digitise their services.
Watts & Wheels explores the rapid rise of Chinese brands in South Africa, BMW’s response and the future of local manufacturing.
Telecoms industry lobbyists claim Europe’s latest regulatory moves show the “Fair Share” debate is far from settled.
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Google is investing in its first-ever Africa product development centre, in Nairobi, as it positions itself to serve a growing base of Internet users on the continent.
Losing customers for the first time in a decade, Netflix is throwing out all of its old rules.
The rand weakened the most in five months as rolling power cuts, flood damage and signs of a Covid comeback added to worries about the economic outlook.
Stewart van Graan will replace Mteto Nyati as CEO of Altron on 1 July, albeit on an interim basis.
New research shows that MTN has South Africa’s fastest mobile network and that the company is running rings around rival Vodacom when it comes to 5G performance.
The Competition Commission has approved US-listed Digital Realty’s acquisition of 55% of South African data centre group Teraco.
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SAP co-CEO Jennifer Morgan, appointed in October to the top executive post alongside Christian Klein, will abruptly leave the German software company at the end of April.
Alibaba Group will invest $28-billion on cloud infrastructure such as data centres over the next three years, a major effort to extend one of its fastest growing businesses to more countries.
Google and Facebook will be forced to pay media companies in Australia for publishing their news under what the government says is a world-first mandatory code of conduct.
Boris Johnson’s plan to let Huawei help build the UK’s 5G mobile networks is under threat from mounting opposition to the Chinese company in his ruling Conservative Party.
French telecommunications giant Orange plans to launch its own-branded retail stores in South Africa before the end of the year and intends launching an Internet service provider business here, too. Until now, Orange has had a retail presence through Nashua Mobile outlets, but the future of this partnership was thrown into doubt earlier this year when
The Mars One programme is offering civilians, including South Africans, the opportunity to create a human colony on Mars. Is this a revival of the golden age of discovery, when explorers left their homes to begin new civilisations? Or is it a “suicide mission” in which people die in space while we watch from
