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Nigeria and Uganda are now closed, leaving Uber in just six African markets after four exits.
Rand Water has been hit by a cyberattack but has said it’s still business as usual, with no impact to water supply.
Hiten Parmar on why South Africa’s electric transition is starting with trucks rather than family cars.
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Nersa has approved a 33.77% increase in Eskom’s electricity tariffs over the next two years, starting with a whopping increase of 18.65% this April.
Government will take on a portion of Eskom’s debt in a staggered manner to avoid a spike in the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio.
The minister of international relations & cooperation has said repeated breakdown of power plants could be seen as an attack on the country.
Postbank acknowledged that a system “glitch” had prevented many social grant recipients from accessing their January 2023 payments.
Apple is working on adding touch screens to its Mac computers, a move that would defy long-held company orthodoxy.
Telkom and Rain have walked away from a transaction that could have seen the JSE-listed operator buying the wireless broadband upstart.
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Indian food delivery start-up Swiggy said on Monday it would lay off 1 100 employees, or nearly 14% of its workforce, to cut costs, as a weeks-long nationwide lockdown hits demand.
Restrictions introduced by Washington on Friday that ostensibly aim to allay US cybersecurity concerns are really designed to safeguard American dominance of global tech, a Huawei executive said on Monday.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has stopped new orders from Huawei Technologies in response to Washington’s move aimed at further limiting chip supplies to the Chinese company.
China said new US export restrictions targeting companies including Huawei Technologies may threaten the global supply chain.
A Japanese messaging app called Line has filed for an initial public offering valued at nearly US$10bn. For an app almost unknown outside Japan it’s an audacious move. However, messaging is there simply to suck you into Line’s mobile world, where the real profits are made. Unlike its rivals, it is already
The saga of Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s appointment as the permanent chief operating officer of the SABC, after an unacceptably long and controversial tenure acting in the same position, has united South African political parties — including the ANC — in ways no issue has in recent times. A broad range of the public and organisations































