Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
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Investec recently launched Programmable Banking, a platform for software developers that aims to open the world of banking to the IT industry with more granularity.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the easing of several restrictions as part of Covid-19 level-1 lockdown regulations. This is what you need to know.
The rand has strengthened to a five-month high on expectations that the central bank will raise interest rates. Portfolio inflows also underpinned its rally.
The South African Reserve Bank and its counterparts in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore have developed an experimental platform for settling multiple central bank digital currencies.
Drivers working for Uber, Bolt and other ride-hailing services in South Africa embarked on a strike to protest against record-high petrol prices.
Eskom plans to propose that some of the funding to help tackle climate change take the form of loans to the government that could be converted to equity in the utility when needed.
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The stock market’s latest plunge pulled global equities into a bear market with traders taking fright at the potential economic damage of the coronavirus.
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has warned that “the Web is not working for women and girls”, in an open letter to mark the 31st anniversary of its creation.
Boris Johnson has survived the first Conservative rebellion of the new UK parliament over the involvement of Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei in Britain’s 5G networks.
The maker of TikTok is preparing to roll out a Google-like suite of office collaboration tools as soon as this month, according to people familiar with the plans, as it works to expand beyond short video sharing.
Last week, Internet service provider Afrihost made headlines for launching a R1 999 smartphone that comes bundled with 1GB/month of data for 12 months. Turns out there’s a South African company behind the smartphone, called the Zest T1. Zest Mobile, a start-up founded just a year ago, is catering
MultiChoice, the owner and operator of pay-television service DStv, intends opening a data pipe on its Explora personal video recorder (PVR) decoder this year, paving the way for consumers to be able to watch on-demand services via the Internet. Group CEO for broadcast technology Gerdus
