304 A SpaceX Super Heavy booster carrying the Starship spacecraft lifts off on its 11th test flight at the company’s launch pad in Starbase, Texas, last year. Steve Nesius/Reuters SpaceX took the…
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AI and data sharing fuel rise in African tax disputes
251 Tax disputes in Africa are on the rise, with the new wave of disputes extending beyond corporate income tax and transfer pricing to value-added tax (VAT), customs duties, withholding taxes and…
Three years in, PayShap pivots to merchants
554 South Africa’s PayShap instant payments system has passed six million registered users and 905 million transactions since its 2023 launch, operator PayInc said on Thursday – even as the system’s owners…
Two telcos, $1-trillion and two very different fintech bets
270 MTN Group and Vodacom Group between them processed just over US$1-trillion in mobile money transactions across their most recent financial years – a milestone for Africa’s two largest telco-led fintech businesses,…
Plan for Eskom’s municipal debt has ‘stalled’
256Eskom takeover seen as being favoured over private-sector partnerships. As the crisis of arrear municipal debt owed to Eskom deepens, a report by the National Energy Crisis Committee (Necom) containing proposed solutions,…
Careers people are leaving behind in 2026
250 PICTURE: PEXELS/ NURSES In 2026, the global job market continues to shift as workers reassess long-term career paths in response to AI disruption, burnout, economic pressure, and changing workplace expectations. While…
There’s an oddity hiding in South Africa’s EV market
338 Plug-in hybrid electric cars (PHEVs) outsold pure battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) by more than two to one in South Africa last year, marking the local market out as a global outlier even…
South Africa’s operators can fix Rica
226 If South Africa’s Sim registration story played out the way we imagine it should, this would be the moment we cut to sunshine, trust and seamless onboarding. But that’s not our…
Anatomy of a reset: why the helpdesk is now the breach
249 Specops Software and TechCentral brought a room of senior executives together at the Park Hyatt Johannesburg on Thursday, 7 May, to dissect the password reset call. The verdict was uncomfortable: in…
Rica blindspot exposed
385 Ten years after its introduction, the embedded Sim (eSim) has been most transformative when used when travelling, according to a new global industry survey – a finding that carries awkward implications…