Eskom has moved to stage three power cuts, the power utility’s media desk said on Thursday. “Eskom moved from stage two to stage three load shedding at 4pm today, which is expected to
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JSE-listed Net1 UEPS Technologies, the company running South Africa’s disputed social grants system, on Thursday announced plans to expand its operations in the UK with the establishment of a new subsidiary called Zazoo. Zazoo, headed by MD
MTN has appointed Suren Sooklal as group chief business risk officer, replacing Shauket Fakie, who is retiring after eight years with the group. Sooklal will take on the role effective immediately, MTN said. Sooklal joins MTN from PricewaterhouseCoopers
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Stage two rolling power cuts will be implemented on Thursday morning, power utility Eskom said. The power outages would be from 8am until 11pm due to a shortage of generation capacity, the Eskom media desk tweeted on its official account
The Democratic Alliance has welcomed news that the ANC has opted for encryption for the digital set-top boxes that will be subsidised by government for up to 5m poorer households
The ANC decided at its lekgotla last week that cabinet’s decision in favour of the use of a conditional access system based on encryption was the right one for South Africa’s digital terrestrial television project
The turnover of the broader social sector in South Africa is roughly same as that of the country’s mining industry and a new start-up, Forgood, hopes to use technology to better direct the flow of monetary
Vodacom’s normalised revenues in its third financial quarter ended 31 December 2014 fell by 1,1% year on year to R20bn, with service revenue down by 2,7% to R15,8bn, despite the group adding 5,1m customers