391 Maidar Secure, a provider of managed security services and security operations centre (SOC) solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Strike48, developer of what it describes as the industry’s only truly…
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Vodacom Business moves to crack the SME tech gap
489 Everyone agrees that small and medium enterprises are the backbone of the South African economy. But the reality on the ground tells a different story – too many small businesses are…
OpenAI takes the fight to Elon Musk
360 Elon Musk. David Swanson/Reuters OpenAI has urged the California and Delaware attorneys-general in the US to consider investigating Elon Musk and his associates’ “improper and anticompetitive behavior” ahead of a trial…
Cabinet approves draft AI policy for public comment
530 Cabinet has approved the publication of South Africa’s draft national AI policy for public comment, minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said. Ntshavheni said on Thursday during a press conference that…
Icasa data confirms the scale of South Africa’s pay-TV collapse
441 The number of pay-TV subscribers in South Africa fell below seven million for the first time in at least five years, dropping 9.6% from 7.4 million to 6.7 million in the…
How agentic AI is reshaping banking in South Africa
768 The author, Absa’s Lindelani Ramukumba Rewind just a few years and large language models and generative AI were barely on the public radar. Yet the technology has already evolved into its…
South Africa’s 5G boom is bypassing rural areas: Icasa
871 South Africa’s 5G population coverage surged from 46.6% to 58% in a single year, the biggest network coverage jump recorded in communications regulator Icasa’s latest State of the ICT Sector report…
South Africa pays R2.5 trillion in debt costs
744 The South African government is spending more and more money on interest, without reducing the debt. A parliamentary reply has revealed that South Africa’s growing debt burden is placing increasing pressure…
DeepSeek V4 to run on Huawei silicon as China builds its own AI stack
696 China’s DeepSeek’s new model, called V4, will run on the latest chips designed by Huawei Technologies, The Information reported on Friday (paywall). In preparation for V4’s launch, Chinese tech giants, including…
WhatsApp is eating South African operators’ revenue
693 South Africa’s mobile operators carried 21.5% more voice traffic in 2025 than the year before but earned R10.4-billion less from mobile services, according to Icasa’s latest State of the ICT Sector…