The alliance banking deal lets South Africa’s biggest retailer expand its financial services without becoming a bank.
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MTN says it and Cell C have not agreed on certain terms of their commercial relationship.
ACT’s Nomvuyiso Batyi explains why South Africa’s telcos won’t back Icasa’s biometric Sim rules as drafted.
A new chief digital officer and strategy head complete six senior appointments at the troubled State IT Agency this financial year.
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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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Rebel politicians in Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party are piling pressure on the prime minister to reverse his decision to allow Huawei to help build the UK’s next-generation wireless networks.
Apple’s supply chain, which is heavily reliant on China, will probably take more than a month to get back to full capacity at the earliest amid disruptions caused by the coronavirus, according to Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives.
HP has announced it will return $16-billion to shareholders, primarily through buybacks, and boost cost cuts, trying to rally investors against Xerox for control of the world’s second largest PC maker.
Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and other companies in South Korea are taking precautions against the coronavirus after a rising number of cases in the country.
Eskom board chairman Zola Tsotsi said on Friday that at least five of Medupi’s units would have had to be running to have made a meaningful contribution to filling the 3GW shortfall experienced on Thursday. Eskom spokesman Andrew Etzinger warned on Sunday that Eskom has not ruled out the possibility
“No options are off the table” as MTN South Africa looks to take an axe to high channel distribution costs. That’s according to the operator’s CEO, Zunaid Bulbulia, who says acquiring independent cellular service providers and cutting margins offered to the
