From Tuesday, 4 April, trademark owners will be able to secure .africa domain names matching their registered trademarks before the new generic top-level domain is opened to the public in July. ZA Central Registry CEO

South Africa lost its investment-grade credit rating from S&P Global Ratings for the first time in 17 years in response to a cabinet purge by President Jacob Zuma that investors worry will thwart an economic

Peter Moyo is stepping down as nonexecutive chairman of Vodacom after seven years on the telecommunications group’s board. He will retire and step down on 18 July, the date of Vodacom’s annual

President Jacob Zuma should step down, his predecessor Kgalema Motlanthe said. “Simply because the apex court, the highest court in the land, has judged him to have breached oath of office,” Motlanthe said when asked in an interview

The anti-piracy squads are at it again. In the past few months, the UK government – one of the more zealous enforcers of copyright – has been responding to Kodi, the free media centre software that is fostering a wave of illegal

Blaming the early closure of some South African coal-fired electricity plants and subsequent job cuts on renewables is “misdirected” because generation from the fuel far outpaces clean-power supply, a former National

Tesla set a record for deliveries and production in the first quarter, beating analysts’ estimates as CEO Elon Musk prepares to begin building the Model 3 in July. The maker of electric cars and energy-storage devices

Although Cell C supports government’s idea of a national wholesale open-access network (Woan), communications regulator Icasa should not wait any longer to allocate spectrum in the 2,6GHz band. That’s the view of the mobile

Elon Musk is planning a first test run late this (northern hemisphere) summer with what his SpaceX bills as the most powerful rocket in the world, a step toward sending two paying tourists around the moon late next year.

New finance minister Malusi Gigaba said he will work within the country’s fiscal framework and doesn’t plan to remove treasury director-general Lungisa Fuzile. “I will work within the fiscal framework as agreed by