210 MTN Group is pushing ahead with plans to build AI-enabled data centres in South Africa and Nigeria as part of a broader bet that the continent’s digital infrastructure needs are about…
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Why managing your Cisco Enterprise Agreement matters more than signing it
335 Software complexity is quietly eroding margins across the channel. Multiple contracts, different renewal dates, disconnected architectures, pricing uncertainty and limited visibility into consumption — for many organisations and partners, this is…
West Africa delivers big for MTN Group
255 MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita MTN Group has reported a sharp recovery in earnings for the year to December 2025, swinging from a loss to a profit as a dramatic turnaround…
Shoprite takes majority stake in R&A Cellular
271 Shoprite Group has acquired a majority stake in R&A Cellular, a point-of-sale platform serving South Africa’s informal retail sector, as part of a push to extend its financial services offering beyond…
JSE plunge sees over R2 trillion wiped out
249 Emerging market volatility peaks amid the Middle East crisis, which saw Brent crude jump almost 25% to $115 a barrel overnight from Sunday. South Africa’s main bourse, the Sandton-based Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE),…
Post Office on the brink of collapse
217 Communications minister Solly Malatsi has dismissed as “premature” a move by the South African Post Office’s business rescue practitioners to file for the liquidation of the embattled state-owned company, saying ongoing…
Mideast war could knock 3% off Africa economies – energy regulator
245 Rising fuel costs could affect everything – freight prices, docking fees, tourism, food, transport and factories, the energy regulator says. Fuel shortages caused by the war in the Middle East could…
Flipping the narrative on AI in the Global South
250 In this thought-provoking episode of TechCentral’s TCS+, Mpho Chitapi sits down with Dr Josefin Rosén, principal trustworthy AI specialist in SAS’s Data Ethics Practice and co-author of the influential report Constraint…
AI is coming to your accounting software
308 London-listed accounting software firm Sage has launched an AI platform it said will ease the administrative burden on small business owners across Africa and the Middle East. But it enters a…
AI is dumping 150-page complaints on finance ombud’s desk
212 What used to take a paragraph or two now comes in book-sized tomes, often with fake legal cases as references. The idea that artificial intelligence (AI) will ease workloads is certainly…