175 Trade, industry & competition minister Parks Tau has substantially raised the monetary thresholds at which mergers must be notified to the Competition Commission, in a move that a senior competition lawyer…
Category: Tech
Hyperscalers ate my next computer
189 I have been idly building the specs my next desktop PC – a Linux gaming and AI rig – for the better part of the past year. It is starting to…
A 12-year-old competition case lands on Canal+’s desk
213 The Competition Commission has signalled it is open to settlement talks with MultiChoice over its allegation that the pay-TV operator entered into a 2014 market-division pact with set-top box manufacturer Altech…
Major African telco postpones mobile money listing
193 Thomas Mukoya/Reuters Airtel Africa on Friday delayed the planned public listing of its mobile money business to the second half of 2026 and forecast a near-term margin squeeze due to higher…
Cabinet approves new permanent Sita board, ending years of turmoil
214 Cabinet has approved a new, permanent board for the State IT Agency (Sita), drawing a line under more than two years of leadership instability that has hobbled government’s centralised IT procurement…
Your databases are being watched
210 The title of this piece is not a metaphor. When a database is compromised and goes unmonitored, an attacker is inside – querying, extracting, mapping access over weeks and months before…
Why South Africa is Zoho’s third-fastest-growing market
186 Zoho’s Andrew Bourne South Africa now sits as the third-fastest-growing market in Zoho’s top 15, according to Andrew Bourne, the Indian business software company’s regional head for Southern Africa. This, he…
OpenAI’s new audio APIs aim for conversational voice agents
197 Image: Jernej Furman OpenAI introduced three audio models for its developer platform on Thursday, aiming to make voice-based software agents more conversational and capable of completing tasks in real time. The…
The gaps in South Africa’s digital ID plan
226 South Africa’s draft digital identity regulations lay a workable foundation but leave critical gaps around wallet architecture, biometric strength and the verification side of the ecosystem, according to industry specialists who…
South Africa’s TikTok election is coming
222 Icasa wants you to know it has tightened up the rules for South Africa’s pivotal municipal elections, set for 4 November 2026. The communications regulator recently published the Municipal Party Elections…