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Eskom monitoring generation reserves as it hopes to avoid daytime power cuts
South Africans will be saddled with stage two power cuts again from 9pm until 5am on Saturday morning.
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Load shedding to hit you on Thursday & Friday night
It said stage 2 load shedding would start on 9 pm on Thursday and end on 5 am on Friday, then start again on Friday at 9 pm and end at 5 am on Saturday.
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Kganyago: Trade-offs essential to avoid debt that will burden future generations
He said politicians need to realise there was no such thing as a free lunch.
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Presidency urges investors to consider rural development investment
The government said that it had turned its attention to specific social projects for which it would use this year’s Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium to raise funds.
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SA firms won't invest cash as long as there's heightened uncertainty - Kganyago
South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago told a webinar hosted by the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) on Wednesday night that there was uncertainty about policy and also the way forward with regards to COVID-19.
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Kganyago: Politicians must understand there's no such thing as a free lunch
South African Reserve Bank Governor, Lesetja Kganyago, said that future generations of South Africans should not be saddled with massive debt run up by politicians looking for short-term gains.
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Thousands of members expected to join Cosatu's nationwide one-day strike
Workers will be protesting against corruption, retrenchments, high levels of unemployment, gender-based violence, and what they call an attack on collective bargaining.
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Ramaphosa: More needs to be done to incorporate women into economy
In a bid to tackle inequality in key sectors of the economy, the president launched the Women Economic Assembly in Modderfontein on Wednesday.
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General Electric, General Motors to collaborate on sourcing rare materials
The two US industrial giants signed a memorandum of understanding with the goal of establishing "a North America- and Europe-based supply chain of vertically integrated magnet manufacturing that both companies will use in the future," the firms said.
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Numsa hopeful steel federation will propose meaningful wage hike
Thousands of metalworkers took to the streets in Durban, the Northern Cape, Johannesburg, the Eastern and Western Cape on Tuesday.
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ANALYSIS: A few clues as to what may have caused the massive Facebook outage
Downdetector.com, a major monitoring service for online outages, called it the largest global outage it had ever recorded - with 10.6 million reports from around the world.
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Google to invest $1 bn to lift internet access in Africa
Internet reliability is a problem in Africa where less than a third of the continent's 1.3 billion people are connected to broadband, according to the World Bank.
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Human settlements bank a few steps away from being a reality - Kubayi
The bank will replace the National Housing Finance Corporation, which currently facilitates Flisp, a housing subsidy programme for first-time homebuyers.
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Cosatu: Govt deliberately mismanaging SOEs to allow for their privatisation
Cosatu’s general secretary, Bheki Ntshalintshali, criticised the sale of South African Airways (SAA) and the unbundling of Transnet, saying that they were convinced that the mismanagement of state companies was deliberate to pave the way for their partial or complete privatisation.
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SABC: Only 2 million people out of just over 10 million paid their TV licences
The SABC said the desired revenue targets were also not met largely due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, which affected the company’s finances.
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From midnight on Tues, diesel drivers will have to fork out more at the pumps
The Energy Department announced this week that the cost of diesel will jump by 22.8 cents per litre as of midnight on Tuesday.
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Whistleblower pushes for Facebook to be regulated
Ex-employee Frances Haugen testified on Capitol Hill after she leaked reams of internal research to authorities and The Wall Street Journal, which detailed how Facebook knew its sites were potentially harmful to young people's mental health.
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GALLERY: 'Stop exploiting us' - Thousands gather for Numsa march in Joburg
In defiance of COVID-19 regulations, thousands of Numsa members in the engineering and metals industry marched through the streets of Johannesburg on 5 October 2021 demanding nothing less than an 8% salary hike.
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We all want to know: Why did Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp shut down?
Sami Slim of data centre company Telehouse compared BGP to "the internet equivalent of air traffic control".
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Engineering sector workers down tools as they demand 8% salary hike
Thousands of Numsa members are marching from Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown to the offices of the Metals and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council in Marshalltown.
