62 Pan-African telecommunications network services provider, Paratus Group, announces the launch of “Paratus 500” – a defining milestone following the group’s expansion into seven additional African markets earlier this year, including Eswatini,…
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Teraco flips the switch on 50MW Cape Town data centre
58 Teraco CEO Jan Hnizdo Teraco has completed a major expansion of its CT2 hyperscale data centre in Cape Town, boosting total capacity on the site to 50MW of critical IT load….
LG honoured with multiple CES 2026 innovation awards
65 LG Electronics has been honoured with numerous CES 2026 Innovation Awards, including two best of innovation distinctions, reaffirming its leadership in next-generation smart life solutions and display technology excellence. Presented annually…
Vodacom’s Maziv deal is still not done
53 Vodacom South Africa is still awaiting approval from communications regulator Icasa for its acquisition of a 30% co-controlling stake in fibre operator Maziv. Icasa’s approval had been expected quickly after the…
Prepaid slump takes shine off Vodacom South Africa results
45 A building on Vodacom’s campus in Midrand, Johannesburrg While international markets helped propel Vodacom Group’s interim results to 30 September 2025 higher, its South African operation has turned in a decidedly…
Crayon and SoftwareOne lead FinOps transformation
84 The current state of cloud adoption often feels less like optimisation and more like “cloud chaos” – a challenge recently addressed in a high-level roundtable discussion. Hosted by TechCentral in partnership…
TechCentral achieves record monthly readership
80 TechCentral is ending 2025 on a high note: the publication notched up record monthly readership in October, propelled by a strong slate of news and feature articles. The traffic record, which…
Mustek-backed AI marketplace launched in South Africa
76 Mustek CEO Hein Engelbrecht Business AI, a South African start-up backed with seed capital from Mustek, has launched an AI marketplace for businesses. The marketplace promises to connect South African companies…
Eskom’s Koeberg cleared to keep humming till 2045
55 The Koeberg nuclear power station. Image: 6000.co.za/BY-NC-ND 2.0 The National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) has approved a 20-year licence extension for unit 2 of Eskom’s Koeberg nuclear power station. The extension ensures…
South African lawyers learn hard lesson in AI fiction
54 A South African court case made headlines for all the wrong reasons in January 2025. The legal team in Mavundla vs MEC: department of co-operative government and traditional affairs KwaZulu-Natal and…