56 The legal and institutional framework underpinning South Africa’s universal service obligations in telecommunications is no longer fit for purpose, industry leaders have warned. The levy paid by licence holders increasingly resembles…
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Wits project pits African creators against AI music’s blind spots
56 Africa’s cultural contribution to global music is not reflected in the data being used to train generative AI systems, and the continent must move quickly to secure a “seat at the…
Prosus offloads 4.5% of Delivery Hero to Uber for €270-million
72 Naspers subsidiary Prosus has sold a 4.5% stake in German food delivery group Delivery Hero to Uber Technologies for about €270-million, taking a further step towards meeting European Commission commitments imposed…
Numsa digs in as Eskom wage pact splits unions
67 Eskom’s Kendal coal-fired power station. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters Two of South Africa’s major labour unions have accepted state power utility Eskom’s 7% wage increase offer, while a third has rejected it and…
Warren Mande to take over as Netstar MD
89 Warren Mande Altron Group has appointed Warren Mande as MD of vehicle tracking and telematics subsidiary Netstar, effective 1 July 2026. Mande, who has been Netstar’s chief operating officer for the…
South Africa’s AI moment is now
101 The author, Stafford Masie Dear minister Malatsi, I write not as a representative of any company or institution but in my personal capacity as someone who has spent the last decade…
TrendAI plans Africa expansion
87 Assad Arabi, TrendAI regional MD for Africa, the Mediterranean and the CIS countries Enterprise cybersecurity firm TrendAI used a customer event in Cape Town on Wednesday evening to announce it has…
Standard Bank data breach fallout deepens
104 Standard Bank has acknowledged that client data stolen in a cyber incident first disclosed on 23 March 2026 “now appears to have been published” online, marking a significant escalation in what…
Gemini gets personal for South African users
105 Google has launched Personal Intelligence in the Gemini app for South African users, a feature that lets the chatbot draw on a user’s Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube and Search history to…
TrendAI opens South African data centre, plans Africa expansion
97 Assad Arabi, TrendAI regional MD for Africa, the Mediterranean and the CIS countries Enterprise cybersecurity firm TrendAI used a customer event in Cape Town on Wednesday evening to announce it has…