129 Technology Innovation Agency CEO Titus Mathe Just months after securing US$72.9-million (R1.2-billion) in a landmark settlement with shareholders of former local biotech Kapa Biosystems, the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) this week…
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South Africa’s cloud reckoning: have your say
146 South African organisations have spent the better part of a decade migrating workloads to the cloud. The strategy decks are written. The hyperscaler contracts are signed. The budgets have been approved,…
South Africa’s operators solved fintech. Digital identity is next
121 For years, the digital identity debate assumed banks would drive adoption. They have regulatory depth, compliance maturity and longstanding customer trust. The evidence now points elsewhere. In fact, the organisations best…
South Africa’s EV sales nearly double
104 South Africa’s electric vehicle market is growing quickly, albeit off a very small base. Battery-electric vehicle sales rose 96% year on year in the first quarter of 2026, according to Naamsa…
The clock is ticking on South African banks’ biggest advantage
150 South Africa’s convergence war has been fought on two fronts simultaneously: Mobile operators have pushed into financial services – payments platforms, digital wallets, money transfers and insurance. Banks have pushed into…
Apple finally overhauls Siri in late bid to catch AI rivals
116 Apple CEO Tim Cook at Apple’s annual developers conference. Carlos Barria/Reuters Apple on Monday rolled out a long-delayed overhaul of Siri, betting the upgraded assistant can help close the gap with…
OpenAI filing sets up a trio of trillion-dollar tech IPOs
119 Dado Ruvic/Reuters ChatGPT maker OpenAI has confidentially filed for a US initial public offering, joining rival Anthropic in a push towards the stock market as investors seek exposure to the AI…
Absa goes quiet on its MVNO plans
143 Absa managing executive Nick Nkosi Eight months after telling TechCentral it was readying the launch of a mobile virtual network operator, Absa is giving very little away about how those plans…
Watts & Wheels S1E5: ‘A Bentley of the bush and a car that swims’
121 After a few months away, Watts & Wheels returns for the fifth episode of season 1, with William Kelly in studio and Duncan McLeod dialling in from the Southern Cape. Watch…
TechCentral appoints Dr Fanie van Rooyen as deputy editor
131 Fanie van Rooyen TechCentral has appointed Dr Fanie van Rooyen as its deputy editor, strengthening the leading technology publication’s newsroom as it deepens its coverage of South Africa’s technology, telecommunications and…