80 In a first-of-its-kind collaboration between tech and content, Xiaomi teamed up with the New Gen Podcast to do something no one has attempted before: record The Toughest Podcast Ever at the…
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SABC says it can’t afford to cover the next election
74 The SABC has warned it will be unable to cover South Africa’s upcoming local government elections adequately. This is after national treasury declined its request for R120-million in dedicated funding, prompting…
SAA announces another profitable year, five months late
82 Financial statements were supposed to be tabled before parliament by 30 September 2025. With no apparent sense of urgency, the South African Airways (SAA) Group has announced some key figures of…
Home affairs’ R10 ID fee is forcing companies to rethink identity verification
77 There has been a drastic increase in the cost of real-time identity verification for banks, fintechs and mobile communications companies in South Africa, resulting in a rethink as to how they…
EU regulators take aim at WhatsApp
80 EU competition regulators on Monday charged Meta Platforms with breaching antitrust rules by blocking artificial intelligence rivals from its messaging service, WhatsApp, and threatened to impose interim measures against the US…
Pepkor CEO sells half a billion rand of shares
81 But continues to hold a stake in the retailer worth R1bn. The CEO of Pepkor, Pieter Erasmus, has sold shares in the group with a total value of R531.3 million. The transactions were…
Paratus lights up new East Africa fibre highway linking Goma and Mombasa
71 Paratus Group chief commercial officer Martin Cox Pan-African telecommunications and network services provider Paratus Group has today switched on a major new fibre route in East Africa, directly connecting Mombasa on…
Vumatel tops a million subscribers in South African broadband milestone
76 Maziv CEO Dietlof Mare Maziv-owned fibre operator Vumatel has crossed the one million subscriber mark, cementing its position as South Africa’s largest fibre-to-the-home network operator and underscoring the rapid pace at…
How to level up your financial game
83 With the cost of living showing no signs of letting up and economic uncertainty still part of daily life for millions of South Africans, many of us are looking for smarter…
Why the future of enterprise AI is hybrid and agentic
84 A few years ago, I wrote about how product teams shouldn’t care about Kubernetes. The goal was to build “golden paths” through internal developer platforms that abstract away infrastructure complexity, allowing…