It takes a bold person to declare that interstellar travel is now within our grasp. Physicist Stephen Hawking has shown that he is just that, taking part in the Breakthrough Starshot initiative. The project has announced a US$100m research programme to investigate the technology

It’s an ambitious plan to launch a series of micro-spaceships to our stellar neighbours, but that’s what Russian billionaire Yuri Miller has announced this week. The US$100m Breakthrough Starshot project aims to send the probes out at speeds up to about one fifth the speed of

The process of registering a company in South Africa is now a simpler, seamless process, said trade & industry minister Rob Davies. Davies was speaking at the launch of the partnership between the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission and Nedbank, which sees

Acquisitive JSE-listed IT services group EOH has announced it is buying 100% of Aptronics, a company that provides networking, virtualisation, and server and storage infrastructure services to businesses for R194m. The purchase price is payable over two

The department of correctional services wanted to overpay a company by more than R300m for providing IT services that should have cost the taxpayer R50m. The government’s chief procurement officer, Kenneth Brown, revealed in parliament on

Giraffe, the South African start-up using technology to help tackle unemployment in South Africa through an automated recruitment service, has announced it has raised a seed round of funding led by Silicon Valley venture firm Omidyar Network. The parties have not

Reunert, the holding company of Nashua, ECN, PanSolutions and other brands, intends using the billions of rand on its balance sheet – including the proceeds of the sale of Nashua Mobile

The Gauteng education department has increased the capacity of its website after it crashed on Monday when online school registrations opened for next year. The site had 600 accesses

Parliamentary officials have demanded that the Post Office chairman pay back money lost through the resignations of top officials. Simosezwe Lushaba faced angry standing committee on public accounts members who questioned the

One of the biggest retail and industrial areas in Johannesburg, Strijdompark in Randburg, is getting fibre broadband. BitCo has announced plans to wire up the large number of businesses in the area