66 Naspers subsidiary Prosus has sold a 4.5% stake in German food delivery group Delivery Hero to Uber Technologies for about €270-million, taking a further step towards meeting European Commission commitments imposed…
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Numsa digs in as Eskom wage pact splits unions
62 Eskom’s Kendal coal-fired power station. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters Two of South Africa’s major labour unions have accepted state power utility Eskom’s 7% wage increase offer, while a third has rejected it and…
Warren Mande to take over as Netstar MD
85 Warren Mande Altron Group has appointed Warren Mande as MD of vehicle tracking and telematics subsidiary Netstar, effective 1 July 2026. Mande, who has been Netstar’s chief operating officer for the…
South Africa’s AI moment is now
95 The author, Stafford Masie Dear minister Malatsi, I write not as a representative of any company or institution but in my personal capacity as someone who has spent the last decade…
TrendAI plans Africa expansion
83 Assad Arabi, TrendAI regional MD for Africa, the Mediterranean and the CIS countries Enterprise cybersecurity firm TrendAI used a customer event in Cape Town on Wednesday evening to announce it has…
Standard Bank data breach fallout deepens
92 Standard Bank has acknowledged that client data stolen in a cyber incident first disclosed on 23 March 2026 “now appears to have been published” online, marking a significant escalation in what…
Gemini gets personal for South African users
101 Google has launched Personal Intelligence in the Gemini app for South African users, a feature that lets the chatbot draw on a user’s Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube and Search history to…
TrendAI opens South African data centre, plans Africa expansion
93 Assad Arabi, TrendAI regional MD for Africa, the Mediterranean and the CIS countries Enterprise cybersecurity firm TrendAI used a customer event in Cape Town on Wednesday evening to announce it has…
Consumers get new weapon against direct marketing spam
127 South Africa’s direct marketing industry faces a significant new compliance regime after trade, industry & competition minister Parks Tau gazetted amendments to the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) that require all direct…
Fibre: the backbone of South Africa’s digital health ecosystem
93 For millions of South Africans, access to healthcare does not begin in a clinic or hospital. It begins online. The internet has quietly become one of the most powerful tools for…