129 Charge chairman Joubert Roux South Africa has fewer than 400 public electric vehicle charging stations – up from zero just 15 years ago – and EV adoption remains stubbornly slow. Yet…
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GoTyme braces for customer churn as it forces app migration
189 GoTyme Bank CEO Cheslyn Jacobs Customers of GoTyme Bank – the digital lender formerly known as TymeBank – face a double change as the company completes its rebrand and migrates users…
WeBuyCars to sell its AI inspection platform to rivals
187 WeBuyCars CEO Faan van der Walt WeBuyCars plans to begin offering its proprietary vehicle inspection platform, Inspectify, to the broader used-car market within the next six to 12 months, opening what…
AFC commits $100-million to African tech funds
147 Africa Finance Corporation has approved a commitment of up to US$100-million to invest in Africa-focused technology fund managers — a move aimed at increasing the share of local capital in the…
Bitcoin firm headed to JSE main board
178 Africa Bitcoin Corporation, the JSE-listed company formerly known as Altvest Capital, is moving its listing from the bourse’s junior market to the main board. The company said the JSE has approved…
Activists challenge 160MW Cape Town data centre project
117 A plan by US-listed Equinix to build two data centres in Cape Town should not be approved without full disclosure of its water, power and environmental impact, a formal objection lodged…
The toll booth at the bottom of the sea
121 The Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Persian Gulf Iran is signalling that it wants to extract rent from the global data traffic flowing through the Strait of Hormuz,…
Why the security operations centre is now a boardroom issue
134 Kaspersky sub-Saharan Africa GM Chris Norton In this Q&A article, Kaspersky GM for sub-Saharan Africa Chris Norton explains why security operations centres (SOCs) are becoming a boardroom priority. What is a…
Anthropic to brief financial regulators on Mythos AI risk
161 AI start-up Anthropic is set to brief the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on cyber vulnerabilities in the global financial system identified by its latest model, Mythos, the Financial Times reported on…
The walkout that could hit every laptop and AI server
152 Samsung Electronics and its labour union started talks on Monday in a last-ditch bid to avert the biggest strike in the tech giant’s history, amid concern that a walkout by more…
