Eskom is expected to complete its unbundling into three divisions by December 2022, according to national treasury.

South Africa signalled a shift in budgetary policy, backtracking on planned tax increases as it switched focus to reigniting the coronavirus-battered economy by bolstering consumption and investment.

South Africa could spend as much as R19.3-billion over the next three years to vaccinate most of its population against Covid-19, national treasury said in a budget presented to parliament on Wednesday.

The architect of Australia’s laws forcing Google and Facebook to pay media companies for content claimed victory on Wednesday though critics said last-minute changes favoured Big Tech.

When the human genome sequence was completed 20 years ago, the scientific achievement was placed on par with the moon landings. But in the two decades since, the sequence has underwhelmed.

Facebook’s brief but tempestuous standoff with the Australian government over a world-first pay-for-news law is only the start of a string of regulatory battles that the world’s biggest social network faces in 2021.

Promoted | Many companies have, until now, dismissed systemic risks as “acts of God” and ignored them. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, has forced leaders to adopt a new attitude.

A group of human rights lawyers has launched a class-action lawsuit against Uber South Africa, seeking to support the company’s thousands of local drivers with better pay and benefits.

Spotify will nearly double its market presence by launching in 85 new markets in the next few days, making the music streaming service available to more than a billion people around the world.

Huawei Technologies saw slight revenue and profit growth in 2020, in line with its expectations, its rotating chairman said on Tuesday, even as Washington toughened up sanctions against the equipment maker.