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Huawei Cloud’s Year-End Sales Carnival
Huawei is thanking its customers for supporting Huawei Cloud in 2020 by hosting a Year-End Sales Carnival with huge discounts on cloud services. From now until 10 December, big deals will be available on cloud compute, network, storage and security services. In…
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Public protector’s ‘mistakes’ were made to nail the president, court hears
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkwhebane blindly and recklessly investigated the CR17 campaign, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s legal counsel argued on Thursday. This was during the Constitutional Court hearing of the legal battle between the public protector and the president over a report…
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‘We struggle for water, but power stations and coal mines don’t’
It’s a scorching afternoon in Lephalale as Elana Greyling directs the way to Lesedi village in Steenbokpan, about 50km away. Greyling, the chair of Concerned Citizens of Lephalale, has lived in the Limpopo bushveld for a long time and knows…
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A colossus with feet of clay
Cybercrime is an issue that has plagued South Africa for many years, with the scale increasing significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic. The cyber exposure index ranks South Africa sixth on the list of most-targeted countries for cyberattacks. An Accenture report…
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China’s resource-for-infrastructure deals
COMMENT Through the use of resource-financed-infrastructure (RFI) agreements, China is playing an ever-greater role in financing industrial and trade-related infrastructure projects in Africa. The RFI model is a financing mechanism whereby a government promises future revenues from a resource extraction…
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Under cover of Covid, Uganda targets LGBTQ+ shelter
Edward was lying on his bed when he heard shouting and banging. Last night had been fun: he’d hosted some friends at the LGBTQ+ homeless shelter where he lives and they had stayed up late, talking and drinking. As he…
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