Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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Eskom is scrutinising contracts to buy power from a government programme for private developers to quickly bring on board additional generation.
Eskom will again implement load shedding countrywide on Tuesday, with the rolling blackouts set to continue until Friday.
Revenue from legacy fixed-line voice services and subscriptions has plunged by almost 60% in South Africa in the past six years, new research from Icasa has found.
Eskom is implementing stage-2 load shedding with immediate effect. This is after unit 5 of the Medupi power station tripped, taking 700MW of capacity offline.
The South African Reserve Bank has taken a step closer to creating a national digital currency. This is after it took the wraps last week off the second phase of Project Khokha.
The Western Cape government wants construction of the new, R4.6-billion Amazon.com Africa headquarters in Cape Town to resume.
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Zoom Video Communications will let paying customers decide which countries their virtual meetings get routed through, a move to assuage clients worried they may be vulnerable to Chinese snooping.
As the coronavirus pandemic leads to anxiety over the strength of the world’s food supply chains, everyone from governments to banks are turning to the skies for help.
Two Nasa astronauts have said they expect it will be tough returning to such a drastically changed world next week, after more than half a year at the International Space Station.
Apple and Google have unveiled a rare partnership to add technology to their smartphone platforms that will alert users if they have come into contact with a person with Covid-19.
President Jacob Zuma’s daughter, Thuthukile, may have made history as South Africa’s youngest head of a minister’s office. From a lowly public liaison officer to the powerful position of chief of staff within two months at the age of 25, she now earns almost a million rand a year. Her dramatic rise to the position, which
The Gauteng provincial government has revealed more details about its plans to wire up the province to broadband. It is starting the project by connecting its core sites to a 1 600km fibre network. The province has also announced plans
