Finance minister Malusi Gigaba met with representatives of the World Bank last week to discuss financing for development of a nuclear power programme in the country, according to two people familiar with
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As news emerged this week on a new submarine cable system that will connect South Africa and Brazil, another major project – the South Atlantic Cable System (Sacs) – is nearing completion. The Sacs cable, a project
I try not to give billionaires or corporate managers unsolicited advice on what they should do with their money. Warren Buffett and Apple both have done rather well for themselves and their investors without
Seaborn Networks has announced plans to build a cable system to connect South Africa with Brazil and onward to the US, while interconnecting with another new system, the IOX Cable, which will run
Roads agency Sanral has thrown in the towel over e-toll debts older than three years and written off R3.6bn in the 2017 financial year relating to this debt. However, it will continue in its attempts to recover unpaid e-tolls by pursuing
Since the beginning of the year, Vodacom has delivered the best returns for shareholders among listed telecommunications shares, while Telkom has been a noticeable laggard, particularly since mid-2017
Broadcom has offered about US$105bn (R1.5 trillion) for Qualcomm, kicking off an ambitious attempt at the largest technology takeover ever in a deal that would rock the electronics industry. Broadcom made
Once upon a time, Altron was voted one of the top 20 companies on the JSE. The share price climbed to R50 and the market capitalisation to R14bn as revenues reached the same levels and exports and operating
BrandsEye, a company that mines social media to determine people’s view on topics from elections to companies, has found that Capitec is South Africa’s most loved bank among social media users. The annual
There is little doubt that artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming almost every facet of human life. How far this transformation will go and what the full ramifications for society will be are still unknown, but this hasn’t prevented