President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday moved to deal with the electricity supply crisis harming the South African economy by lifting the limit on self-generation of power to 100MW.

South Africa’s largest fashion and lifestyle retailer, TFG, wants to build up its newly launched technology hub to more than 100 new staff, its CEO said on Thursday.

The pan-African pay-television operator, which owns DStv and SuperSport, has lifted its subscriber base by 1.4 million in the past year to reach 20.9 million households.

The president has encouraged mobile operators, Icasa and the department of communications to engage in mediation to get South Africa’s spectrum auction back on track.

Social media firms wanting to operate in Nigeria must register a local entity and be licensed, the country’s information minister said on Wednesday.

Can bitcoin work in the real world, for the mundane matters of buying and selling things? El Salvador’s announcement that it will consider bitcoin legal tender may give an answer.

Police in China arrested over 1 100 people suspected of using cryptocurrencies to launder illegal proceeds from telephone and Internet scams in a recent crackdown.

A microscopic organism has wriggled back to life and reproduced asexually after lying frozen in the vast permafrost lands of northeastern Siberia for 24 000 years.

Eskom was forced to implement stage-4 load shedding at short notice on Wednesday, despite having cut the level of planned maintenance at its power stations to just 1.3GW.

MultiChoice Group is increasing its stake in BetKing, an Africa-focused sports-betting platform operator, to a non-controlling 49% investment for R3.8-billion.