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Online now accounts for more than a tenth of TFG Africa’s sales, and the store estate is shrinking.
Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production in mid-2027 to make room for its Cybercab robo-taxi.
AA CEO Bobby Ramagwede warns South Africa’s car manufacturing industry could be decimated within five years.
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Communications regulator Icasa is moving to make additional radio frequency spectrum available for Wi-Fi broadband.
Former MTN Group CEO Rob Shuter is stepping down as CEO of BT’s Enterprise business – and from “executive life”.
Eskom needs a new management team, this is clear. But the country also needs new leadership.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has been re-elected leader of the governing ANC, meaning he is likely to lead the party into the 2024 election.
Government has deployed the army to four power stations as theft and vandalism add to the inability of Eskom to meet electricity demand.
Eskom granted “some reprieve” from load shedding to City Power to help it deal with repairs following floods.
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Boris Johnson insisted the decision to allow Huawei to play a limited role in the UK’s 5G infrastructure would not “imperil our relationship” with the US as he faced a backlash from Tory MPs and US Republicans.
Apple is still reaping huge profits from the iPhone while mining more moneymaking opportunities from the growing popularity of its smartwatch, digital services and wireless earbuds.
Britain will let Huawei Technologies play a limited role in building the country’s next-generation mobile phone networks, denying a long-running attempt by the US to have the Chinese tech giant barred.
Apple has asked suppliers to make as many as 80 million iPhones in the first half of this year, an increase of more than 10% from the previous year’s output, the Nikkei newspaper reported.
Cabinet’s decision this month to mandate the use of a control system in the set-top boxes government will subsidise for poorer households has led to a great deal of confusion in South Africa’s broadcasting industry. The decision largely went in favour of e.tv, which has
Here they are, TechCentral’s South African Newsmakers of 2013. These are the individuals, in ascending order from five to one, who we believe were the most newsworthy in the technology and telecommunications space this year, for good reasons and bad

































