285 Enviro Automotive has launched the Riddara RD6, South Africa’s first fully electric 4×4 bakkie – and Watts & Wheels has taken it for a test drive. In episode 2 of Watts…
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Are there any safe cars left on SA roads? NCC issues another vehicle recall
280 Lexus warns that the issue greatly increases the risk of an accident, especially at higher speeds. Week after week, the National Consumer Commission (NCC) has issued a product recall of certain…
Spotify to hike prices in South Africa
344 Spotify said on Monday it would increase the monthly price of its premium individual subscription in select markets from September, as the Swedish streaming giant looks to improve margins. The subscription…
SA’s efforts to repair US ties undermined internally, says Lamola amid tariff fallout
218 The US is South Africa’s third-largest trading partner, accounting for 7.5% of total exports. International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola has assured the public that support programmes will help offset…
Former Dimension Data execs accuse NTT of smear tactics
323 Former Dimension Data executive chairman Jeremy Ord Five of six former Dimension Data executives who were found last November by the high court to have engaged in a “brazen and dishonest”…
BMW strikes back at Tesla
337 Next to BMW’s headquarters in the heart of Munich, a museum and glass-walled exhibition centre showcase classics including the 507 convertible that Elvis Presley drove during his US army tour in…
Godongwana hits back at Reserve Bank’s 3% inflation target
221 Treasury makes it clear that this is not Sarb’s isolated call. Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana threw shade on the SA Reserve Bank’s (Sarb) 3% inflation target announced last week – saying he…
MultiChoice carves out SA unit to pave way for Canal+ deal
234 MultiChoice Group has announced details for the first time about its plans to restructure the shareholding in its main South African operation to facilitate the JSE-listed broadcaster’s sale to France’s Groupe…
From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen: who’s really winning the innovation war?
241 One of the barriers to understanding the world is our fixation on sports thinking: who is winning and who is catching up? This has long been true of politics — we…
Blow for state over BEE requirement for estate agents
203 Ministers will no longer oppose the matter brought before court by Sakeliga. Lobby group Sakeliga has struck an arguably decisive blow in its legal challenge to moves by the Property Practitioners…