501 Communications regulator Icasa has formally signalled that it cannot give full effect to communications minister Solly Malatsi’s December 2025 policy direction on broad-based black economic empowerment without an amendment to the…
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Malatsi opens door to ‘some’ partial privatisations of SOEs
286 Communications minister Solly Malatsi Communications minister Solly Malatsi has placed faster, cheaper and more reliable internet at the centre of the department of communications & digital technologies’ agenda for the year…
‘Food price increases are coming,’ warns Boxer CEO
316 Impact of higher diesel and fuel prices will start to be felt, but not across the board. After trading in a deflationary environment for the past year, during which its internal…
Naked Insurance launches native app in ChatGPT
309 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…
Don’t miss the Telviva Tech Insights webinar
317 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
358 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
438 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
392 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
580 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
438 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…