195 If you’re leading technology in a South African organisation right now, you’ve probably felt the same tension: service expectations keep rising, while teams stay lean. It shows up in the small…
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Free Market Foundation slams treasury’s proposed gambling tax
198 The Free Market Foundation (FMF) is demanding that a national 20% tax for online gambling proposed by the national treasury be withdrawn and reconsidered within South Africa’s existing decentralised regulatory regime….
Farmers sweat over uncertainty of Tongaat Hulett’s future
203 Farmers fear missed milling windows could wipe out months of work. Nkosinathi Msweli, who grows sugarcane in Kearney, Stanger in the KwaDukuza area of KwaZulu-Natal, said uncertainty about the embattled Tongaat…
What Gen Z really thinks about the tech world it inherited
231 My smartphone is face down on my desk as I write this, not because something is wrong with it but because I am trying to finish one thought without it interrupting…
Showmax ‘can’t continue’ in its current form
237 MultiChoice Group CEO David Mignot has confirmed major changes are coming to the loss-making Showmax platform, reaffirming that the current model is not sustainable. In a wide-ranging interview with TechCentral on…
Spar CEO resigns with CFO to take over in March
258 He is not the first Spar CEO to jump ship amid uncertainty. Angelo Swartz resigned as Spar Group CEO on Friday morning. It comes as the group faces a hefty lawsuit…
SABC Plus tops two million registered users
259 SABC Plus, the free online streaming platform, has reached two million registered users, the public broadcaster said in a statement on Thursday. According to the SABC, the SABC Plus platform continues…
Government’s plan to turn SA into a construction site
189 The state owns 88 000 buildings and 5m hectares of land yet pays R6bn a year in leases. The state’s enormous property portfolio of 88 000 buildings and five million hectares of…
MultiChoice scraps annual DStv price hikes for 2026
284 MultiChoice Group CEO David Mignot. Image: (c) Aurelien Pierron For the first time in many years, DStv subscribers will not face a price increase in April – a significant strategic shift…
South Africa’s dynamic spectrum breakthrough
242 The author, Paul Colmer The digital divide in South Africa just got its most credible solution yet. After years of planning, trials and technical validation, dynamic spectrum sharing has moved from…