143 South Africa reached 300 consecutive days without load shedding on Thursday, a milestone Eskom said underscores the sustained recovery of its generation fleet. The state power utility said its energy availability…
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Peter Thiel’s secretive Rome conference draws Church attention
155 Peter Thiel. Brendan McDermid/Reuters Peter Thiel, the US billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of Donald Trump, launched a series of closed-door lectures in Rome on Sunday exploring the concept of…
Vision Group claims solution to save Tongaat Hulett is in sight
166 But the IDC and dtic must ‘come to the party’ and Vision is not interested in Tongaat ‘for a quick buck’ The Vision Group led by South African businessman Robert Gumede…
Your Airbnb is empty half the year
154 AirhostSwap is a South African platform tackling one of the biggest problems in the short-term rental sector: unbooked nights that drag down annual average occupancy rates, especially during the low season….
Mitel receives 2025 Enterprise Collaboration Product of the Year award
154 Mitel, a global leader in business communications, has announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded Mitel CX as a 2025 Enterprise Collaboration Product of the Year award winner….
Optasia beats IPO guidance in maiden results as lending scales
144 Salvador Anglada Optasia, the fintech that listed on the JSE in November, has delivered a set of maiden annual results that comfortably exceed the guidance it gave investors at the time…
MTN’s mobile money machine
165 MTN Group’s fintech business now processes more than half a trillion dollars in annual transaction value, underscoring the scale of mobile financial services on the African continent and the growing strategic…
MTN lines up partners for African AI data centre play
151 MTN Group is pushing ahead with plans to build AI-enabled data centres in South Africa and Nigeria as part of a broader bet that the continent’s digital infrastructure needs are about…
Why managing your Cisco Enterprise Agreement matters more than signing it
255 Software complexity is quietly eroding margins across the channel. Multiple contracts, different renewal dates, disconnected architectures, pricing uncertainty and limited visibility into consumption — for many organisations and partners, this is…
West Africa delivers big for MTN Group
171 MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita MTN Group has reported a sharp recovery in earnings for the year to December 2025, swinging from a loss to a profit as a dramatic turnaround…