194 Naked Insurance CEO Alex Thomson Naked Insurance has launched a native app in ChatGPT that it says can produce a final, binding car insurance quote – a move the Johannesburg-based insurtech…
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Don’t miss the Telviva Tech Insights webinar
228 The gap between your business communications stack and your CRM is where your team’s productivity goes to die. In a high-velocity digital environment, siloed channels aren’t just an operational hurdle –…
Don’t miss the Pan African DataCentres Exhibition & Conference
246 The Pan African DataCentres Exhibition & Conference (PADC) returns to the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, on 23-24 June, showcasing the latest in infrastructure, new technologies, expertise and ideas shaping the future…
Sars shifts focus to escalating penalties for non-compliant trusts
253 All part of Sars’s efforts to broaden the tax base. A major drive for the South African Revenue Service (Sars) under the leadership of new commissioner Johnstone Makhubu is to broaden…
Global uncertainty, African opportunity: Wars and instability steer tourists to South Africa
259 As conflict disrupts traditional travel routes and increases costs in the Middle East, South Africa and other parts of Africa are positioning themselves as compelling alternatives. Africa’s 2026 Travel Indaba officially…
Herotel becomes South Africa’s largest retail fibre ISP
323 Herotel has become South Africa’s largest retail fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) internet service provider by connected homes, according to the latest Africa Analysis FTTH Quarter Tracking report. The Stellenbosch-based ISP, which is owned…
Joosub warns of 24 months of pain for phone buyers
262 Vodacom Group CEO Shameel Joosub has warned that smartphone prices will rise sharply amid the RAM supply crisis, supply-chain restrictions and rising fuel prices. Joosub told TechCentral on Monday that the…
BLSA CEO questions whether changes to BEE will grow South Africa
218 ‘Every rand spent on compliance bureaucracy is a rand not spent on actual service delivery.’ Business Leadership South Africa CEO, Busisiwe Mavuso, has expressed her views about the proposed amendments to…
Malatsi moves to rescue South Africa’s botched AI policy
210 Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi has appointed an independent panel of AI researchers, lawyers and governance specialists to rebuild South Africa’s draft national AI policy, a…
Netflix’s astonishing R2.2-trillion content bill
357 A Netflix building in Hollywood. Daniel Cole/Reuters Netflix has invested more than US$135-billion (R2.2-trillion) in films and television series over the past decade, the company said on Tuesday, underscoring the dominance…