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End of an era for South Africa's payments system
4+ day, 23+ 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…...
VALR and Luno fight Treasury's cross-border crypto draft
5+ day, 5+ 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…...
Vodacom recruits former JSE chief as chair succession begins
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…...
The case against a light-touch AI policy for South Africa
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…...
New OpenAI model can find and exploit unknown security flaws on its own
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,…...
South Africans are buying fewer phones and paying more for them
1+ week, 6+ 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…...
NEWORDER brings Lasso's AI agent controls to South Africa
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,…...
South African talk radio is now searchable
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…...
Nvidia's top AI chips are coming to a Centurion data centre
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,…...
What African and EU firms must know about data residency
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…...