5+ day, 21+ 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, 3+ 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…...

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…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (664+ words) South African start-up Stratos Lab has begun deploying what it and its partners say will be the most powerful AI cloud on the continent, built on Nvidia’s latest shipping B300 “Blackwell Ultra” GPUs and hosted at a data centre in Centurion,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (474+ words) Cloud platforms are now the primary building block for how organisations build and run digital services. As data crosses borders, questions about where it sits, who can reach it and which laws govern it have moved from a compliance detail…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (426+ words) MTN has been putting 90 million prepaid Sim cards into the South African market every year, and estimates the industry as a whole is pushing between 200 million and 300 million a year into a country of about 65 million people, adults and children....

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (869+ words) The reduction holds on both measures MTN reports. On the IFRS 16 basis used in its segment tables, South African capital expenditure fell 13.5% to R3.3-billion from R3.81-billion. Group capital expenditure was R19.7-billion excluding leases, down 5% as reported and marginally higher in…...

3+ week, 22+ hour ago   (483+ words) MTN and Vodacom are structurally constrained from competing hard for mobile virtual network operator hosting business, Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes has argued, because at their market shares an aggressive wholesale push would cost them retail customers to their own…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (566+ words) Kastelo, the fintech at the centre of a South African Reserve Bank exchange control investigation that has ensnared DA MP Mark Burke, has rejected the central bank’s core allegation that its clients were unaware that billions of rand were being…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (435+ words) Africa’s digital economy is expanding rapidly. Governments are digitising public services, businesses are accelerating digital transformation and millions more citizens are participating in the online economy. This creates enormous opportunities, but it also increases exposure to cybercrime, ransomware, digital fraud,…...