Ed Miliband’s move to bring forward ban is gambit to stop would-be Reform voters from backing Nigel Farage’s pro-fracking party

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Ed Miliband announced on Wednesday that Labour is to speed up plans to bring in a “total ban” on fracking. But how will this work and will it stop a future Reform government from fracking?

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Private rooftop solar power supported more of South Africa’s electricity demand than the country’s sole nuclear power station in the first six months of 2025.

Remgro executive Pieter Uys was the driving force behind the successful R11 billion deal, in which Vodacom will acquire a 30% stake in Maziv, which owns Vumatel and DFA.

Luno is the winner of the MyBroadband 2025 Crypto Exchange of the Year Award thanks to its popularity among South Africa’s top cryptocurrency investors.

The South African leg of Qlik’s AI Reality Tour unpacks turning data strategy into actionable results.

Mastercard has extended its strategic commercial partnership with Smile ID, an identity verification provider in Africa to accelerate the rollout of secure digital identity solutions across the continent.

Brett and Mark Levy have seen their single figure remuneration increase by almost 80% between 2024 and 2025.

Communications minister Solly Malatsi convenes a G20 ministerial task force meeting, stressing the need for inclusive artificial intelligence guardrails.

The industry has always wanted the NHS to pay more for its drugs; now it is pulling research and investment out of Britain

This year so far, some of the biggest pharmaceutical corporations in the world have withdrawn about £2bn in proposed investment from the UK. One has even threatened to withhold new medicines from NHS patients. Taken together, it’s hard not to conclude that big pharma is...

The Courier Guy says it was not offline on Tuesday, but experienced an outage on its website due to a DNS problem with its hosting provider.

In his new role, Vukani Mngxati will lead Microsoft’s South African operations, driving initiatives that support local digital and AI transformation.

The platform aims to complement traditional banking while empowering users to grow their savings and manage money.

It has not said how much the storage plans will cost UK users, only that they were part of a “gradual global rollout”.

As the power utility returns to profitability, it shifts its focus to digitalisation, while establishing a renewable energy company.

South African workers should be cautious about sharing emails from other employees externally.

Microsoft has appointed Vukani Mngxati as the new CEO of its South African business as it ramps up its spending on data centres.

Microsoft South Africa has appointed Vukani Mngxati as its new CEO.

The highly anticipated ASUS Ascent GX10 mini AI supercomputer will arrive in South Africa in the fourth quarter of 2025.

From mentorship to hands-on judging, Expleo drives innovation and skills growth at Testing AI Hackathon.

The Digital Skills for Jobs and Income II project will implement cloud computing career path measures through the Step Up II programme.

To counter threats like Charon, companies must move beyond reactive patching and adopt continuous threat exposure management, says Andrzej Jarmolowicz, operations director at Cybershure.