Earlier this week the Budget Speech was postponed for the first time in South Africa’s history as a democracy. It was soon revealed that the postponement came as a result of an impasse within the GNU regarding a VAT hike. South Africans have taken to social media to reject the proposal and drag government for forcing locals to potentially endure more financial strain.
Acer South Africa tells us that tariffs in the US won’t affect its pricing in South Africa. “Acer is monitoring global dynamics and notes that tariffs between countries, which don’t directly impact South African imports, are not expected to affect local pricing immediately,” the company told us on Thursday. That’s great news if you’re in the market for new hardware.
The forthcoming Volvo ES90 is a compute power house, that you can drive. The vehicle will be fitted with not one but two NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin systems. This computer orchestrates various essential systems and processes inside the car at ultra-fast speeds. How fast? 508 trillion operations per second. Soon our cars may have more compute power than your local DC.
