Chery has agreed to acquire Nissan’s Pretoria plant, opening the door for Chinese vehicle manufacturing in South Africa.
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Digital IDs will form the foundation for other government departments to digitise their services.
Watts & Wheels explores the rapid rise of Chinese brands in South Africa, BMW’s response and the future of local manufacturing.
Telecoms industry lobbyists claim Europe’s latest regulatory moves show the “Fair Share” debate is far from settled.
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South African fintech Ozow has raised $48-million in a series-B funding round led by China’s Tencent Holdings.
Openserve, the wholesale division of Telkom, has announced that it will serve as the landing station partner for Google’s massive Equiano submarine cable system in South Africa.
JSE-listed Woolworths Holdings said almost 15% of its turnover came from online channels in its most recent reporting period.
South Africa will likely be hit by a fourth wave of infections but its impact probably won’t be as severe as during earlier surges, new modelling shows.
Due to plant breakdowns at three power stations, Eskom will implement stage-2 load shedding for the rest of the week.
Energy regulator Nersa and energy minister Gwede Mantashe have been sued by environmental activists over plans to allow the construction of new coal-fired power plants.
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Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, said it will repurchase as much as US$40-billion of shares in a new buyback programme and boosted its quarterly dividend by $0.05 to $0.51/share.
Huawei is offering up its most valuable 5G secrets and $1.5-billion to software developers, courting the global tech community at a time the US is heightening scrutiny of the Chinese giant.
Facebook has said it expects to name the first members of a new quasi-independent oversight board by the end of the year.
The Trump administration proposed new regulations on Tuesday to toughen national security reviews of foreign investments in US companies involved in technology and infrastructure.
Much has been made about green industry being a new vehicle for industrial development in South Africa. It is part of the industrial policy action plan. For now, the focus is mainly on increasing the local content of components, which fall under the renewable energy independent producers’ procurement programme
South Africa’s first wind farm was built outside Darling, up the coast from Cape Town. Its four turbines sit on a hill, looking towards the ocean. At peak capacity, they generate 5,2MW, enough to power 700 houses. The only sound they make is a soft whoosh as their giant white blades rotate
