
Novus to appeal after being told to hike Mustek bid
Novus Holdings is vowing to fight a Takeover Regulation Panel ruling that it must increase its offer to Mustek shareholders.
MONDAY, 05 JANUARY 2026, 10:31

Novus Holdings is vowing to fight a Takeover Regulation Panel ruling that it must increase its offer to Mustek shareholders.

South Africans who need to apply for or collect Home Affairs documents from the department’s offices will benefit from extended operating hours from 5 to 16 January 2026.

Thuto.io targets learners in grades 8-12, providing tools for daily academic engagement, performance-based rewards.

Raise an eyebrow for World Logic Day
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Samsung unveiled the lineup at an event in Las Vegas for the CES technology conference, where most major TV makers will also be showing off their next-generation products this week.

An independent family-owned pharmacy in Cape Town was recently spared a devastating start to the year thanks to the diligence of cybersecurity forensic investigator Bruce Malaudzi.

The shares were bought at prices ranging between 398 cents and 400 cents per share, for a total consideration of R9.38 million, excluding transaction costs.

The power utility has installed 73 523 smart meters as it seeks to eliminate load reduction by 2027.

Huawei’s Passive Ethernet Network solution is a next-generation campus networking architecture designed for simplicity, performance and energy efficiency.

The milestone reinforces the company’s commitment to delivering data, AI and analytics solutions powered by Microsoft Fabric.

CISOs usually have to validate that security controls across the organisation are relevant and still match reality.

After weeks of sideways movement, the best crypto to buy, Bitcoin, has finally broken above the $90,000 key level. On Friday, the largest crypto surged to $90,935 amid market-wide bullish momentum. BTC is now poised to close decisively above the crucial support level, and if it sustains this momentum, it could mark an inflection point […]

The 2025 December holidays could be the last in which South African motorists will face widely varying speeding fines depending on where they were caught exceeding the legal limit.

Fifty years after television’s arrival in South Africa, the SABC faces hard questions about relevance, funding and its mandate.

Solar system’s biggest planet will be close enough to reveal its largest moons through a pair of modest binoculars
The giant planet Jupiter reaches its closest approach to the Earth in 2026 this week. It is extremely well placed for observation and so bright that it is impossible to miss.
Jupiter – the largest planet in the solar system – will be unmistakable in Gemini, the twins, forming a...
Wednesday marked the end of support for the last and final version of HP-UX, writes OSNews. They call it “the end of another vestige of the heyday of the commercial UNIX variants, a reign ended by cheap x86 hardware and the increasing popularisation of Linux.”I have two HP-UX 11i v1 PA-RISC workstations, one of them being my pride and joy: an HP c8000, the last and fastest PA-RISC workstation...

MultiChoice has said decreases in subscribers, revenue, and trading profit were due to unpredecented operating challenges.
While California’s residents have had the right to demand companies stop collecting/selling their data since 2020, doing so used to require a laborious opting out with each individual company,” reports TechCrunch.But now Californians can make “a single request that more than 500 registered data brokers delete their information” — using the Delete Requests and Opt-Out Platform (or DROP):Once...
North Dakota passed a law last May to promote development of rare earth minerals in the state. But the law’s language apparently also includes two fake mineral names, according to the Bismarck Tribune, “that appear to be inspired by coal company lawyers who worked on the bill.”The inclusion of fictional substances is being called an embarrassment by one state official, a possible practical joke...
America’s electric car subsidies expired at the end of September, notes Bloomberg. Yet in those last three months, “while fully electric cars and trucks made up 10% of all auto sales in the US… another 15% of transactions were for hybrid vehicles.”The EV market is slowing in the U.S., but analysts expect hybrid sales to continue accelerating. CarGurus Inc., a digital listings platform that...
Here it is — Betty Boop’s first appearance, which became public domain on Thursday. It’s a 60-second song halfway through a longer cartoon about a restaurant titled Dizzy Dishes. (The first scene makes it clear this is a restaurant of anthropomorphized animals — which explains why the as-yet-unnamed character has floppy dog ears…) So Fleischer Studios has now warned that claiming Betty Boop...