290 Cape Town has wheeled renewable electricity across multiple buildings simultaneously for the first time, in a pooled arrangement that its architects say solves one of the biggest commercial obstacles to scaling…
Category: Business
Here’s how young graduates and professionals can get onto the property ladder sooner
199With repayments limited to just the interest for the first two years, the prospect of buying your own home can move from being a ‘one day’ dream to a ‘right now’ possibility….
Webinar today: a 30-day plan to protect your SME from cyberattacks
192 In the past few weeks alone, we’ve seen a series of reported breaches and cyber incidents affecting education institutions, technology providers and industry organisations in South Africa. These incidents reinforce the…
Pick n Pay’s online growth slows as Sixty60 lead widens
296 Pick n Pay CEO Sean Summers Pick n Pay’s online business has held onto the profitability it first reported a year ago, but turnover growth has slowed materially as the retailer…
Gauteng transport department ordered to pay Putco R154.4m
270 Department also issued with a punitive court cost order for failing to comply with its obligations. The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport has been ordered to pay commuter bus company…
Altron surprises with special dividend
256 Altron Group CEO Werner Kapp Altron Group has declared a R500-million special dividend and lifted its final ordinary dividend by 44% to 72c/share, returning a substantial chunk of cash to shareholders…
Huawei claims chip design breakthrough
317 Ali Song/Reuters Huawei Technologies said on Monday that its high-end chips will have transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm processes in five years, underscoring Beijing’s efforts to neutralise US sanctions that have…
Eskom turned the lights back on
255 Congratulations must go to Eskom for achieving a full year without load shedding. That is a remarkable turnaround from only three years ago when we experienced 300 days of load shedding…
DDoS attacks expose South Africa’s cyber response gap
361 South Africa has the legislative foundation to respond to nation-scale cyberattacks but the practical capacity has yet to be realised. A wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks earlier this week disrupted…
Financial independence: Why you need it and how you can work towards it
237 PICTURE: PEXELS/ FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE Financial independence has become one of the biggest goals for many young adults navigating rising living costs, economic uncertainty and increasing pressure to maintain certain lifestyles. Also…