4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (592+ words) South Africa’s banks have lost the body through which they collectively governed the national payment system. On 2 September, the Reserve Bank’s recognition of the Payments Association of South Africa as the country’s payment system management body lapsed, ending a self-regulatory…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (615+ words) South Africa’s biggest regulated crypto platforms have taken their fight public, forming a coalition and launching a petition against draft rules that would bar local companies from making cross-border payments in crypto assets. At issue is the draft crypto asset…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (402+ words) Former JSE CEO Leila Fourie Vodacom Group has appointed former JSE CEO Leila Fourie to its board as an alternate director to chairman Saki Macozoma, with effect from 9 October 2026. In a notice to shareholders on Tuesday, the group said Fourie…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (327+ words) South Africa should regulate AI through binding rules anchored in the constitution rather than through voluntary ethical principles and self-regulation, according to a University of Cape Town doctoral thesis. Minister Solly Malatsi has staked South Africa’s AI future on staying…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (526+ words) Uber is cutting about 3 300 jobs, roughly a tenth of its global headcount, in a restructuring designed to flatten its management hierarchy and concentrate resources on three things: ride-hailing, delivery and autonomous vehicles. The number of managers is being slashed by…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (385+ words) OpenAI has determined that one of its upcoming models is so capable it requires additional safety measures before it can be launched. The model, called Astra, can spot more security vulnerabilities than the most advanced OpenAI model publicly available today,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (379+ words) South Africans bought markedly fewer smartphones in the first half of 2026 and paid considerably more for the ones they did buy, according to NielsenIQ’s latest State of the Retail Nation analysis. Telecoms is the largest category in the local tech…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (515+ words) NEWORDER has partnered with Lasso Security, a Tel Aviv-based AI security company, to bring agentic AI protection to South Africa. The platform lets NEWORDER run continuous adversarial testing against a client’s AI agents — attacking them the way an outsider would,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (527+ words) Eskom reported R4.9-billion of irregular expenditure for the year to 31 March 2026, less than half the restated figure for the year before. But read further into the auditor’s report and a different number appears. During the year, Eskom confirmed irregular expenditure…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (860+ words) South African talk radio is the last big pool of news that nobody can search. Locl is an attempt to change that: a platform that listens to the live streams of the country’s major English-language talk stations, transcribes everything, indexes…...