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1 week ago | 
mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge
South African retailers with old stock of light bulbs that don’t meet the compulsory specifications enforced by the Department of Trade, Industry, and Competition, have until November 2025 to sell these units. Trade and industry minister Ebrahim Patel published South Africa’s new light bulb regulations in May 2024, which came into effect on 24 May 2025.
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1 week ago | 
mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge
EWN reports that the Western Cape Provincial Regulatory Entity (PRE) has announced an additional 1,100 operating licences for e-hailing drivers and metered taxi operators in Cape Town. The Western Cape E-hailing Association has welcomed the announcement after the PRE reviewed supply and demand across Cape Town. The municipality recommended supporting more operating licences to ensure enough rides are available for commuters in the metro.
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1 week ago | 
mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) is calling on Transport Minister Barbara Creecy to waive fines and the requirement for temporary licences for those whose licence cards are stuck in the backlog. Stefanie Fick, the executive director for accountability, has written to the minister and asked her to consider extending the validity period for all cards to 10 years.
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1 week ago | 
mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge
Ordering a meal on Mr D and Uber Eats is substantially more expensive than buying it directly from the restaurant, even when excluding their respective delivery and service fees. MyBroadband compared the price of ordering food from five popular outlets in-store to buying the same food items through Mr D and Uber Eats. We found that markups on food ranged from 14% to 40.5%.
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1 week ago | 
mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge
Getting a high-end smartphone on contract is more accessible than paying thousands of rands to buy a device cash, and South Africans have several options for under R1,000 per month. Depending on the device, high-end smartphones such as Apple’s iPhones, Samsung’s Galaxy S series, Huawei’s Pura 70 lineup, and Honor’s Magic can cost upwards of R15,000.
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1 week ago | 
mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge
Households in South Africa without fibre-to-the-home or 5G coverage have several uncapped fixed-LTE products available to them, with prices for 20Mbps packages starting at R295 per month. A 20Mbps connection is ideal for single-person use and small households. It is sufficient for HD video streaming, online gaming, video conferencing, and general browsing. However, it should be noted that a 20Mbps package might be a bit slow for data-intensive activities, such as 4K video streaming.
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1 week ago | 
mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge
South Africa’s reliance on coal-fired power could result in significant economic and job losses as more companies and countries want carbon-free imports. According to Net Zero Tracker, South Africa should accelerate its shift away from coal power to remain competitive as an exporter. It stated that more countries are implementing carbon border taxes and clean-energy industrial policies.
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1 week ago | 
mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge
South Africa’s biggest solar plant is Scatec’s Kenhardt hybrid facility in the Northern Cape. It has a solar generation capacity of 540MW and battery energy storage totalling 225MW, or 1,140MWh.However, it is dwarfed by the Urumqi solar farm in the Xinjiang province in China — the world’s largest solar power facility, with a capacity of 3.5GW. The Kenhardt solar battery storage facility started feeding power into Eskom’s grid in December 2023.
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1 week ago | 
mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge
South African residents can get a symmetrical 1Gbps fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) package for as little as R799 per month, provided they are covered by the relatively small fibre network operator (FNO) offering it. MyBroadband compared asymmetrical and symmetrical 1Gbps FTTH packages across various FNOs and popular Internet service providers (ISPs). Our analysis found that one FNO, Cybersmart Open Fibre, offers a symmetrical 1Gbps package through Afrihost for R799 per month.
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1 week ago | 
mybroadband.co.za | Myles Illidge
The Foschini Group’s (TFG’s) online shopping platform, Bash, officially launched in February 2023 and reached profitability just over two years later. The e-commerce platform is a “one-stop shop” for hundreds of brands in the TFG group and has become a top e-commerce player and one of the country’s fastest-growing online shopping channels. It competes with players like Amazon and Takealot in South Africa and international players like Temu and Shein.
