South Africa’s leading online retailer, Takealot, says Amazon.com’s plans to launch its e-commerce business in the country show the market is poised for growth, even as it faces power cuts, antitrust issues and inflationary...
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Vodacom is celebrating its 30th birthday this year. It was founded in 1993 as a joint venture between Telkom, Vodafone, and Venfin. Vodacom’s origins date back to 1991 when an investigation into the cellphone industry in...
The new Haval Jolion HEV is a great example of what the near future of the automotive scene in South Africa could look like – marrying the benefits of electric and petrol vehicles into a single entity. I spent a...
Amazon’s cloud service AWS has announced its plans to invest R30.4 billion in its cloud infrastructure in South Africa by 2029. The group published a new economic impact study (EIS) which outlined the group’s...
The new VW Golf 8 R is going on sale at the end of April at a starting price of R912,800. Not many hot hatches can compete with VW’s new beast, but there are a few that is up to the challenge. From under...
Power utility Eskom says that load shedding will be pushed to stage 6 on Wednesday (12 April). Due to a shortage of generation capacity, stage 6 load shedding will be implemented from 16h00 this afternoon until 05h00 on...
Tencent Holdings tumbled by the most in seven weeks amid speculation its largest shareholder Prosus NV may speed up selling shares in the Chinese internet giant. Prosus plans to deposit an additional 96 million of shares...
Jonathan Katz, founder and managing director of Earthchild Clothing Group, is the first to admit that the clothing industry is not for the fainthearted. He should know, having entered the business with what he describes as...
The pilot project plans to study the potential of introducing small portable solar power systems into informal housing communities to provide electricity. Installers prepare a test site as part of the pilot project to deliver...
It’s become an integral part of the average South African’s daily routine – constantly checking the EskomSePush app for the latest loadshedding schedule. We rarely stop to think of the IT infrastructure that’s needed...