South Africa

The US Senate voted to ban the hugely popular TikTok video-sharing app from all government-issued phones and other devices as the Biden administration considers restrictions on the Chinese-owned platform. The …

Apple recently fixed a zero-day security vulnerability affecting the iPhone 8 and later that the company said was actively exploited, TechCrunch reports. The company rolled out iOS 16.1.2 on 30 …

South Africa’s statistics agency is considering including self-generated power in its monthly electricity-generation data as more households and businesses reduce their reliance on state-owned utility Eskom.Adding the metric would broaden …

The South African Commercial, Catering, and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) have opted to suspend plans to strike at all of Massmart Group’s companies over a dispute at Makro and will …

During the closing session of the World Travel & Tourism Council’s (WTTC) Global Summit in Riyadh, the Rwandan capital of Kigali, was announced as the host city for 2023, marking …

Equinix plans to invest $160 million to build its first data centre in South Africa, as part of the firm’s African expansion push.The US data centre company will build its …

Twitter Inc. resumed selling its Twitter Blue premium offering, which gives users a blue verification badge by their names, following a weeks-long pause because some subscribers were using the paid …

The world’s longest undersea cable, 2Africa, has made landfall at Yzerfontein and is linked to its cable landing station at Duynefontein near Cape Town. MTN GlobalConnect officially announced the landing …

Eskom “technically” implemented stage 7 load-shedding at one point last week, according to the Bureau for Economic Research’s (BER’s) latest weekly review. The BER argues Eskom’s power cuts reached this …

China Telecom has launched its premium IP transit service, CTGNET, in several new African cities – including Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Mombasa, and Djibouti. CTGNET is the latest global …