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Lerato Mokoena

Lerato Mokoena is the Business and Technology Editor and covers the economy, the markets and the technology the country runs on, from the JSE to the grid to the networks in between.

Earlier from Lerato Mokoena

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South Africa turns to AfCFTA as US trade shifts

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Western Cape opens export fund to grow sales abroad and jobs at home

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US moves to strip South Africa's AGOA trade benefits

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Bambili Energy takes South African hydrogen know-how to China

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Your town owes Eskom R122.5bn. The new council inherits the bill

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India's food bills stay high as farmers run short of water

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Mupita keeps GSMA deputy chair seat until 2028 as MTN carries Africa's case to the world's mobile body

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Heineken fights back over Strongbow as black-owned buyer says the brand was run down

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Sowetan app update promises faster screens and tighter account security

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TimesLIVE app update cuts load times and tightens account security

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Kling AI raises R52 billion in three months as video generation race turns into a spending war

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Absa opens Dubai office to chase Gulf money into Africa

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Absa puts USD 50 million behind Uganda's power grid as it pushes projects from pipeline to finance

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MTN One TV launches first original series, 100 Ways to Stay Single in Lagos

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Binance hack: $2.5bn frozen as bitcoin slides, and South African traders watch their exits shut

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Nvidia puts $3bn into Meta share sale as its AI bets draw bubble warnings

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US Fed holds rates at 3.75% to 4% as the rand sits steady at R16.65 to the dollar

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Egyptian solar irrigation startup NoorNation raises $1.05 million to take pay-as-you-go water pumps into Sub-Saharan Africa

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Rand hits 16.68 as a Saudi refinery strike lifts oil, and ETM warns 17.00 is next

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South African firms stuck on old systems get a faster, cheaper upgrade path

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Volkswagen may put Chinese car software in European models, leaving its R96bn Rivian deal stranded

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Your AI prototype is not a product yet, and South African firms are being paid to finish it

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R45 billion more to spend, and the R38 billion savings come out of the grants and programmes you use

Lerato Mokoena files to the Business & Technology section. The other editors are in The Editors' Room.