153 Visa is preparing the rails for AI agents to shop and pay on South Africans’ behalf – and a deepening global partnership with OpenAI has added fresh impetus to that effort….
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Naspers signals core earnings surge ahead of results
129 Naspers and its Amsterdam-listed subsidiary, Prosus, have told shareholders to expect a sharp rise in core headline earnings for the year to 31 March 2026, in what the group has described…
Home affairs bookings get a security overhaul
111 The department of home affairs has launched an upgraded online booking system on the MyHomeAffairsOnline platform, introducing enhanced security measures to prevent the abuse of booking slots and improve access to…
AI is now hunting tax cheats in South Africa
117 The South African Revenue Service says AI has already blocked more than R100-million in impermissible outflows – and that is just the start of an ambition that stretches to AI agents…
When the Garden Route floods hit, the map was already drawn
125 Before the second cut-off low hit the Garden Route in early June, every dam in the district was already at 100% capacity. The ground was saturated. Temporary road repairs from the…
South Africans took a sizeable bite of SpaceX after historic IPO
122 South African investors poured R179-million in just two days into SpaceX when it hit the public markets last week, with EasyEquities data revealing a frenzy of activity that has already made…
Lesaka pushes out Bank Zero deal deadline
90 Lesaka Technologies has extended the long-stop date for its R1.1-billion acquisition of Bank Zero by nearly six months, to 31 January 2027, as the dual-listed fintech waits on the last of…
The Pan African DataCentres event opens next week
115 The Pan African DataCentres Exhibition & Conference (PADC) returns to the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on 23 and 24 June, showcasing the infrastructure, technologies, expertise and ideas shaping the future…
Flagship broadband programme in South Africa stalled
118 Communications department director-general Nonkqubela Jordan-Dyani Government’s flagship broadband programme, SA Connect, was effectively frozen for most of the past financial year after funding the communications department had been counting on failed…
Why most cloud migrations inherit risk before they create value
103 A typical migration environment looks manageable on paper. An established organisation, a predominantly on-premises setup, a directive to move to the cloud. What the scoping work usually reveals is something more…