Until a few years ago, solar panels were a rare sight in South Africa, largely limited to the roofs of a few affluent households. This is changing rapidly, driven by three factors: the worldwide drive towards renewable energy, a highly strained local electricity supply, and a steady drop in solar panel prices
Television in South Africa turns 40 years old on Tuesday. The SABC TV service marks its 40th anniversary since the very first nationwide broadcast on 5 January 1976 when Dorianne Berry and Heinrich Marnitz welcomed viewers to the “opening night” of TV in the country
About 200 000 Vodacom accounts have been affected by a technical glitch that resulted in customers being incorrectly double debited twice last week. This is according to an updated statement from Vodacom on Tuesday, as the company continues processing refunds to affected customers.
South Africa is likely to fail in its quest to develop its nuclear energy capacity, according to emerging markets economist Peter Attard Montalto of Nomura. Montalto said that if the 9,6GW nuclear procurement programme does see the light of day, it will be a “slimmed down programme spread
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Huge Group, Adapt IT and Net1 UEPS Technologies top the list of the best performing technology shares on the JSE in 2015. In a difficult economic environment, the three counters have far outperformed the overall market, adding 95,2%, 58,5% and 55,5% respectively over the past 12 months
In a day in which the penny dropped on racism in South Africa with the Penny Sparrow “monkey” scandal gripping the country, Standard Bank dropped another bomb, announcing the
The class of 2015 has one more sleep until the department of basic education starts releasing matric results eight of the nine provinces from midnight on Tuesday. You can also check your matric results from Tuesday here. Basic Education Minister Angie
Vodacom has not revealed what caused an error that led to several of its customers being double debited last week. Vodacom sent an SMS to customers on Friday afternoon informing them that the company was aware that some accounts had been debited twice owing to a “technical glitch”. The company promised to
The Eskom manager who brought Majuba back to operation after the silo collapse is replacing Roman Crookes as Medupi’s project director with immediate effect. Eskom on Monday appointed Phillip Dukashe to replace Crookes to run Medupi power station without a handover from Crookes
