The first all-civilian crew ever to circle the Earth from space blasted off from Florida on Wednesday aboard a SpaceX rocket ship and soared into orbit.

Chat platform Discord has raised $500-million in a new funding round led by investment firm Dragoneer Investment Group.

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Datatec’s share price is in the dumps and the management team, led by CEO Jens Montanana, is thinking big to find ways of unlocking value.

The US, Germany, France and the UK will send a delegation to South Africa as soon as next week to seek a deal to begin closing the country’s coal-fired plants.

Cell C terminated the provision of network services to Virgin Mobile South Africa at 5pm on Wednesday, signalling the death of the country’s first mobile virtual network operator.

Apple’s newest iPhones will go on sale in South Africa on 8 October – three weeks from now – a local agent has confirmed.

FirstRand will end funding for new coal-fired power stations and coal mines and has lowered the cap on its coal exposure as part of moves to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, it said on Wednesday.

OneWeb launched 34 satellites into orbit from a cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, expanding its in-orbit constellation to 322 satellites, it said on Wednesday.