The United Nations is partnering with MTN, Vodacom, Orange and Airtel on a mobile data platform that delivers coronavirus-related information around Africa.

Government plans to retain a minority shareholding in South African Airways while ceding management control to its investors, an official said.

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Brazil’s central bank has suspended Facebook’s WhatsApp messenger payment feature in the country, the app’s second biggest market with more than 120 million users.

Twitter placed a warning notice on a tweet by US President Donald Trump threatening “serious force” against protesters in the US capital, the second time it has used the label.

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Eskom warned late on Tuesday that its generation system is “severely constrained” as the result of unplanned breakdowns at four units.

Podcast | Crime is now easily as bad as it was before South Africa entered the lockdown in late March, according to Vumacam CEO Ricky Croock.