Eskom has implemented load shedding 26 times in the last 100 days, as it battles to keep up with its supply of electricity, data shows. South Africans have had to spend 26% of their year so far planning for a day with load shedding. Eskom has effectively cut off 43GW of electricity to

The Democratic Alliance has called on deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa, in his capacity as leader of government business, to provide clarity around the awarding of tenders to produce and supply 5m set-top boxes for digital terrestrial television. The process has

Eskom said on Tuesday it will implement stage two load shedding from 6am, and this is likely to continue until 10pm. This follows two days of load shedding. Eskom said in a statement on Monday evening that it had stopped stage two load shedding

When the JSE began trading on Monday morning, Naspers opened at R2 001,50/share. This was the counter’s first foray above R2 000, a price that is just below 88% higher than where it opened on 14 April last year. Going back two years, the surge in the share

Riding high on the growing fortunes of Tencent, in which it holds a 34% stake, Naspers smashed through the R2 000/share barrier in morning trading on the JSE on Monday. It’s the first time the technology and media giant has reached the R2 000/share milestone

The Black IT Forum, which represents thousands of small and medium enterprises, black professionals and students, has come out strongly in favour of Vodacom’s proposed R7bn acquisition of Neotel and says the former must get access to the latter’s spectrum assets

MultiChoice Africa CEO Nico Meyer has left the pay-television operator for “personal reasons”. He left the group’s employ on 31 March, MultiChoice GM for corporate affairs Jackie Rakitla confirmed on Monday. He has been replaced by Tim Jacobs

While construction workers continued their stayaway at Medupi power station on Monday, the risk of load shedding throughout the week was highly likely, according to Eskom. Construction workers continued their stayaway in solidarity with

Eskom’s plans for a possible interruption of bulk electricity supply to the top 20 defaulting municipalities is of great concern to the small business sector, the AHi business chamber said on Monday. The total municipal arrears debt greater than 30 days stood at R4,6bn as at

A new Web browser, still in technical preview, has been launched by the co-founder and former CEO of Opera Software, the Norwegian company behind the Opera Web browser. Vivaldi, which is aimed at Internet power users, should be released beta form in the coming