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Silicon Valley startup Lyten said on Thursday it had agreed to buy bankrupt Northvolt’s remaining assets in Sweden and Germany, potentially reviving Europe’s hopes of building a domestic electric vehicle battery industry to reduce reliance on China.
Huawei’s joint electric vehicle brand with Chery said on Thursday that it will invest more than ¥10bn (R24,649,982,000) and expand its research and development team to 5,000 people.
Germany’s VDA auto association said on Thursday the promised trade agreement between the EU and the US needed to be implemented immediately so the industry could receive some relief.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered the shut down of its Dojo supercomputer team, with team leader Peter Bannon departing the company, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Cabinet has approved participation in an international effort to boost the marketing of real diamonds, responding to the increasing appeal of lab-grown gems and funded by a 1% levy on the annual revenues of diamond companies.
The gang, which Canadian officials accuse of working for India, has claimed responsibility for multiple recent murders.
Visiting Beijing at the height of US President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” trade war rhetoric in April, Kenyan President William Ruto described a “broken global order”. He declared Kenya would work with China to build a “fair, inclusive and sustainable world order”.
The exploitation of South Africa’s large mineral endowment explains the relative development of its economy; at the same time, it explains its stagnation.
The chicken schnitzel has defied fads and food crazes for decades, a hardy survivor of human whims and foibles. Now it has arrived in the age of the air fryer.
The large, bustling, Northern Cape town of Upington is a double gateway to both the Kalahari and Karoo regions of South Africa.
A train and a bus collided on a railway crossing in central Kenya on Thursday, killing at least four people and injuring others.
The firms says it expects revenue for the three months to the end of August to fall by about 10% compared with last year.
In this week’s Friday Briefing, we explore whether South Africa can navigate Donald Trump’s turbulent trade waters over the next three-and-a-half years.
Five prominent figures share their thoughts on what it means for modern women to celebrate Women’s Day
Israel’s political-security cabinet approved a plan to take control of Gaza City early on Friday, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel intended to take military control of the entire strip despite intensifying criticism at home and abroad over the devastating almost two-year-old war.
The resignation is a blow for the Labour government, which trails Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK party in polls.
Gina Carano sued for wrongful termination with the support and funding of billionaire Elon Musk.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested earlier this week that Israel will ‘take control of all Gaza’.
Residents of Hillside View, an integrated housing development in Mangaung, Free State, say they are living harmoniously and building a positive community spirit.
Workers at Ithala Development Finance Corporation, represented by the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union, have raised red flags about management of the institution under group CEO Pearl Bhengu.