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Hiten Parmar on why South Africa’s electric transition is starting with trucks rather than family cars.
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Letting big operators coordinate rural roll-outs would leave many communities with one provider and no alternative.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has appealed to Eskom to suspend its biggest electricity price increase in more than a decade.
The rand weakened early on Monday, as power utility Eskom extended scheduled electricity cuts.
Eskom will impose load shedding on a continuous basis for at least the next two years, board chairman Mpho Makwanan has warned.
CEO André De Ruyter also reaffirmed that power cuts would continue for two more years at least.
Government has loosened local content requirements for solar panels and kicked off a review of plans for the nation’s energy mix.
The result of Eskom’s woes is that South Africans are increasingly being forced to explore alternative sources of electricity.
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A pair of Donald Trump’s tweets that made unsubstantiated claims about mail-in voting were appended on Tuesday with links pointing readers to news stories fact-checking him.
Amazon.com is in talks to buy driverless vehicle startup Zoox, according to a person familiar with the matter, a deal that would accelerate the e-commerce giant’s automation efforts.
SpaceX is on course to make history on Wednesday as it launches two astronauts into space, the first time a private company has attempted to do so.
Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings will invest about R1.2-trillion over the next five years in technology infrastructure including cloud computing, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that as we spend more time communicating via social media, we are disappearing into bubbles. We receive information from the same sources and witness the views of the same people in our personalised newsfeeds every day. But it also seems like living in our bubble is having an effect on our own opinions and
Overall, Vodacom and Telkom Mobile have South Africa’s best post-paid mobile plans, new data from telecommunications research firm Tarifica claims to show. Virgin Mobile scored bottom of the list, coming in in fifth place overall behind Cell C and MTN, but MTN failed to emerge as the winner in even a single category. The Tarifica scores
