Newly appointed finance minister Malusi Gigaba should be given time to settle into the job before being judged on his performance, according to central bank governor Lesetja Kganyago. President Jacob Zuma’s decision to fire Pravin Gordhan as finance

For the iPhone’s 10th anniversary, Apple is planning to release new and upgraded models later this year, with updated designs, improved cameras and better screens. But a more important product launch actually began in

Only six remaining milestones stand between Tesla’s Elon Musk and an estimated $1,4bn windfall for the car maker’s billionaire CEO. Musk, who was awarded 5,27m stock options in 2012 tied to Tesla operational

Allan Gray, one of South Africa’s biggest money managers, said it’s “increasingly concerned” over the running of Net1 UEPS Technologies, a company whose lending practices to people on welfare have been criticised as unethical by

Researchers from the South African Astronomical Observatory have helped find a new exoplanet, 320 light years from Earth, that exhibits unusual characteristics. SAAO, with other researchers from around the world, found

Facebook’s research unit, Building 8, is working to make it possible for people to type using signals from their brains, part of the lab’s broader effort to free people from their phones. Regina Dugan, hired from Google parent

The Facebook Live video of the murder of 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr by Steve Stephens has been watched at least 1,6m times. It took Facebook three hours to take the video down, and by that

It was the third hour of doing nothing that broke James Scott. The 25-year-old researcher was sitting at his desk at an insurance firm in northern England when the Internet went down. And with it went access to all

WorldRemit, a British money-transfer operator, sees revenue from transactions involving Africans doubling by 2020 as more people on the continent access mobile payment platforms and expatriates send cash home. The seven-year-old

Mastercard will work with South African partners to bring biometric cards to local consumers by the end of the year. The development follows two separate trials conducted recently with Pick n Pay and Absa. South Africa is the first