South African taxman seizes Bitcoin mining equipment worth R10 million: Commissioner Edward Kieswetter responded to questions about why Bitcoin miners using illegal electricity connection are a SARS matter. – MyBroadband
Eskom announces all-day stage 6 load-shedding: At the time of its statement, Eskom had an astounding 23,857MW of total generating capacity unavailable, among the highest levels of outages yet. – MyBroadband
Extraditing Guptas could take over 5 years: South African authorities’ extradition attempts recently suffered a major setback when the United Arab Emirates released the Gupta brothers after a warrant for their arrest was cancelled. – MyBroadband
Bheki Cele may have lied to Parliament about illegal spying equipment — Report: South African police minister Bheki Cele may have lied to Parliament when he denied his involvement in the illegal procurement of phone call interception and surveillance equipment, City Press reports. – MyBroadband
Tax warning over stopping load-shedding at hospitals, schools, and police stations: The North Gauteng High Court’s ruling that government provide backup power to essential facilities that cannot be exempted from load-shedding is bad news for taxpayers, Sunday Times reports. – MyBroadband
Army redeployed at Eskom power stations: Some 2,700 members were previously deployed between December 2022 and April 2023. – MyBroadband
Rain kills uncapped 4G packages: The change comes after the company announced the launch of its fully-fledged national mobile network with support for voice calls and SMSs on Thursday, 4 May 2023. – MyBroadband
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