24 South Africa’s telecommunications operators wants future spectrum auction proceeds reinvested in digital infrastructure, citing the heavy bill that operators continue to carry from 2022. The Association of Comms & Technology (ACT)…
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South Africa cuts red tape for dealmakers
63 Trade, industry & competition minister Parks Tau has substantially raised the monetary thresholds at which mergers must be notified to the Competition Commission, in a move that a senior competition lawyer…
Money habits that help reduce financial anxiety
128 PICTURE: UNSPLASH/ SIMPLE BUDGET Financial anxiety is becoming increasingly common, especially as the cost of living continues to rise and income pressure affects households across South Africa. While money stress can…
Hyperscalers ate my next computer
125 I have been idly building the specs my next desktop PC – a Linux gaming and AI rig – for the better part of the past year. It is starting to…
A 12-year-old competition case lands on Canal+’s desk
132 The Competition Commission has signalled it is open to settlement talks with MultiChoice over its allegation that the pay-TV operator entered into a 2014 market-division pact with set-top box manufacturer Altech…
Major African telco postpones mobile money listing
122 Thomas Mukoya/Reuters Airtel Africa on Friday delayed the planned public listing of its mobile money business to the second half of 2026 and forecast a near-term margin squeeze due to higher…
Sanral procurement chief suspended again
129 According to informed sources. The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) has suspended its chief procurement officer – again. Informed sources told Moneyweb that Khomotso Mhelembe and two general managers in…
Cabinet approves new permanent Sita board, ending years of turmoil
138 Cabinet has approved a new, permanent board for the State IT Agency (Sita), drawing a line under more than two years of leadership instability that has hobbled government’s centralised IT procurement…
Your databases are being watched
146 The title of this piece is not a metaphor. When a database is compromised and goes unmonitored, an attacker is inside – querying, extracting, mapping access over weeks and months before…
FlySafair extends ticket surcharge to August
129 It could remain in place for longer if strong Eurozone summer demand puts further pressure on global jet fuel prices. South Africa’s largest airline, FlySafair, has extended the surcharge on ticket…