199 It will come as no surprise to South Africans that their expenses over the past decade have far outstripped their income growth. However, seeing it reflected in the figures it quite…
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Starlink considers building its own phone
194 Elon Musk. Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters With a SpaceX public listing expected this year, the company has plans for its revenue-generating Starlink business that could expand its reach into new markets, including a…
fibre-like broadband for South African homes
215 Vox, a specialist provider of top-class internet and voice solutions for homes and business, has announced the launch of Vox Kiwi Home Wireless. The new consumer broadband service delivers a fibre-like…
South Africa is losing its film industry
184 Just a few years ago, the local film industry was booming. South African production was at record levels and getting global recognition. We were one of the world’s darling destinations for…
How AI decimated this Prosus company
217 Group has written off 68% of the purchase price it paid before LLMs ‘killed’ Stack Overflow The collapse in active usage of Prosus portfolio company Stack Overflow over the last three…
NEC XON achieves an African first with full Fortinet accreditation
196 Ian Kruger, NEC XON pre-sales and engineering manager Customers of NEC XON will gain access to broader and deeper enterprise cybersecurity capabilities following the company’s achievement of every available accreditation within…
Agentic AI turns automation into consequence
179 At a recent TechCentral executive roundtable co-hosted with Clickatell, the conversation on agentic AI moved past tooling to something more important: consequence. Agentic systems don’t just assist humans. They take actions…
New affordable lofts spark hope for Katlehong housing market
135Sebenzile Lofts brings 21 affordable, modern rental units to Katlehong, offering hope for the housing market and empowering local communities. The local housing landscape in Katlehong saw a significant shift as the…
MTN Group in talks to buy out IHS Towers
215 MTN Group said on Thursday that it’s in advanced discussions to acquire the shares in IHS Holdings that it does not already own, a move that would see the mobile operator…
South Africa secures $8 billion from Afreximbank – here’s what it will be used for
210 South Africa has formally joined Afreximbank as a Class A shareholder. African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the continent’s biggest trade bank, has committed an $8 billion (about R128 billion) financing package for…