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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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Eskom is moving to around-the-clock stage-6 load shedding from 4pm on Wednesday as the rapidly deepening energy crisis spirals.
The City of Johannesburg has issued an extraordinary appeal to communities to help it deal with a widening scourge of infrastructure theft.
Outgoing transport minister Fikile Mbalula is the most popular member of cabinet on Twitter.
South Africa has entered a critical phase of revamping its sole nuclear plant and needs it to run according to plan.
Eskom has escalated load shedding to stage 6, equal to the worst blackouts it has ever imposed, between 4pm and 5am daily.
Dimension Data has filed papers against several former top executives, including Jeremy Ord, over the transaction involving the sale of its head office in 2019.
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Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app.
The Trump administration on Friday moved to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies from global chip makers, in an action that could ramp up tensions with China.
Hon Hai Precision Industry’s profit plunged by the most on record after the coronavirus disrupted its China production and walloped global smartphone demand.
The world’s biggest contract chip maker said it plans to build a $12-billion factory in the US in an apparent win for the Trump administration’s efforts to wrestle global tech supply chains back from China.
The pain, it seems, is not over for former Nokia workers as their new employer, Microsoft, prepares to cut its workforce by a massive 18 000. Microsoft has not announced where all of these cuts will come from, but
Pretoria-based Desert Wolf made international headlines last month after it emerged that it had developed a drone capable of showering pepper spray on rioting crowds and claiming the technology could be used in “preventing another Marikana”, in reference to the violent protest in August 2012 where 34






























