250 The sheer scale of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on South African internet infrastructure in recent days does not make sense considering the relatively small amounts the attackers are trying to…
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Golden Arrow Holds Off on Fare Hikes as Diesel Surges
200 Golden Arrow Bus Services says it is still holding the line on fare increases, even as soaring diesel prices pile pressure onto one of Cape Town’s biggest public transport operators. The…
Setback for Vodacom in Kenya
294 Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub A planned sale by the Kenyan government of a 15% stake in Safaricom to South Africa’s Vodacom Group remains on hold after the high court in…
Pick n Pay sells down R4.7bn in Boxer to shore up turnaround
209 Pick n Pay announced it would sell down a further 11.5% of its subsidiary Boxer valued at up to R4.7 billion to shore up its balance sheet and to ensure that…
DDoS extortionists ‘carpet bomb’ South African internet hosts
305 Network Platforms chief technical officer Warwick Ward-Cox A wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks hitting South African web hosts is a deliberate extortion campaign run by a criminal group. That is…
Digital Parks Africa expands global network reach with Cogent
186 Global tier-1 carrier Cogent Communications is now live at Digital Parks Africa’s Samrand data centre, giving customers direct access to one of the world’s largest IP backbone networks from within the…
Mantashe ordered to transfer mining right to Afrimat
190 A nine-month administrative delay could have serious commercial and employment consequences for the company, high court finds. Afrimat has obtained a high court order forcing the Minister of Mineral and Petroleum…
Extortion fears as DDoS attacks hit SA internet infrastructure
288 At least three South African web hosting and network providers have had services disrupted by large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks since Monday, in a run of incidents that one provider has…
AI won’t fix your culture
186 The author, Jackie Kennedy When leaders ask me what AI will do to workplace culture, my answer is always the same: AI will reveal the culture you already have. AI will…
Toyota plugs in at last: bZ4X is its first EV for South Africa
255 Toyota South Africa has finally put a price on its first battery-electric vehicle, the bZ4X. The country’s largest car brand – which builds vehicles at its Prospecton plant in Durban for…