The beauty and shame of Zimbabwe
Every bit of standing water is alive with mosquito larvae. Standing upright in the water they wriggle downwards at the slightest disturbance. No matter how precious the water, you must…
Allegations of fraudulent payments amounting to billions at Prasa
Senior officials at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) have allowed two tenders amounting to almost R18 billion to be awarded to a company, seemingly without the basic…
Spur confident of defending multi-million-rand damages claim
JSE-listed Spur Corporation is confident about the outcome of a multi-million-rand high court dispute with a South African subsidiary of the global GPS Food Group. The parties agreed to refer…
Stage 3 load shedding is back
South Africans will have to brace for another bout of load shedding this weekend after Eskom confirmed that Stage 3 will be implemented until 5am on Monday 10 March. According…
Capitec slashes interest rates on large lazy balances
Capitec Bank has slashed the interest it pays on balances in its main transactional accounts in a move designed to get its clients to move money into dedicated savings accounts…
Sugary drinks are a killer
Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular conditions account for over 70% of global deaths annually. In South Africa, non-communicable diseases cause more than half of all deaths. Diabetes ranks as…
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams is building another social network
Ev Williams has spent most of his professional life focused on letting people share their ideas with the world from behind a keyboard. Now Williams, 52, who co-founded Blogger, Twitter…
Trump says ‘nobody has heard of Lesotho’ – meanwhile, Musk is setting up shop there
US President Donald Trump says nobody has ever heard of Lesotho. But his colleague Elon Musk, head of the new Department of Government Efficiency, is currently seeking a licence to…
Bad news for new nuclear and gas power in South Africa
Coal and nuclear power will continue to form part of South Africa’s energy mix for at least 10 to 20 years, with the addition of gas and new nuclear generation…
MacBook Air with M4 chip South African prices revealed
Digicape, a South African Apple Premium Reseller, has opened pre-orders for Apple’s new M4-powered MacBook Air. Apple rolled out updated MacBook Air laptops and Mac Studio desktops this week. The…