49South Africa’s digital future must work for everyone. World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, annually observed on 17 May, is a reminder that in today’s world, access to technology increasingly determines access…
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Memory makers SK Hynix and Micron join the $1-trillion club
55 SK Hynix topped US$1-trillion in market value for the first time on Wednesday, joining its memory chip rivals Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology in reaching the milestone on an AI-driven rally….
Mobile operators locked out as Icasa opens 900MHz of spectrum
66 Communications regulator Icasa has gazetted the final regulations on the use of “innovation spectrum”, formally settling one of the most contested questions in South African spectrum policy. In terms of the…
Hiking interest rates does not solve the problem, says analyst
87 Inflation is driven higher by fuel, electricity, logistics and other administered or imported costs. The South African Reserve Bank’s (Sarb) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will on Thursday announce whether it will…
South Africa’s right-to-repair vacuum
83 More than two years after South African industry groups began pressing for right-to-repair rules in consumer electronics – the EU has adopted a binding directive and six US states have enacted…
Eskom breaks ground on R1.2-billion Lethabo solar plant
52 Eskom’s Lethabo power station in the northern Free State Eskom Green has begun construction on a 75MW solar power plant at its Lethabo power station in the Free State – the…
Social grant dependence increases as recipients triple over two decades
55 This sharp increase has been attributed to the large uptake of Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grants. Social grant reliance in South Africa has increased sharply over the past two…
Africa’s data centre industry to converge on Sandton this June
59 When you hear that Microsoft is to invest US$-329million into the South African data centre sector to increase cloud infrastructure and AI training, you know that the sector is about to…
Threat actors don’t hack in anymore
73 Threat actors don’t hack in anymore – they log in. That, in a sentence, is the problem South African IT leaders are still not taking seriously enough. That was the blunt…
Average take-home pay declines in April: Here’s how much people earned
47 South African workers took home less pay in April 2026, with the average nominal net salary declining to R21 228 as households continued to battle rising living costs, high debt levels…