132 South Africa reached 300 consecutive days without load shedding on Thursday, a milestone Eskom said underscores the sustained recovery of its generation fleet. The state power utility said its energy availability…
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Peter Thiel’s secretive Rome conference draws Church attention
145 Peter Thiel. Brendan McDermid/Reuters Peter Thiel, the US billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of Donald Trump, launched a series of closed-door lectures in Rome on Sunday exploring the concept of…
Your Airbnb is empty half the year
137 AirhostSwap is a South African platform tackling one of the biggest problems in the short-term rental sector: unbooked nights that drag down annual average occupancy rates, especially during the low season….
Mitel receives 2025 Enterprise Collaboration Product of the Year award
138 Mitel, a global leader in business communications, has announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has awarded Mitel CX as a 2025 Enterprise Collaboration Product of the Year award winner….
Optasia beats IPO guidance in maiden results as lending scales
132 Salvador Anglada Optasia, the fintech that listed on the JSE in November, has delivered a set of maiden annual results that comfortably exceed the guidance it gave investors at the time…
MTN’s mobile money machine
147 MTN Group’s fintech business now processes more than half a trillion dollars in annual transaction value, underscoring the scale of mobile financial services on the African continent and the growing strategic…
MTN lines up partners for African AI data centre play
140 MTN Group is pushing ahead with plans to build AI-enabled data centres in South Africa and Nigeria as part of a broader bet that the continent’s digital infrastructure needs are about…
Why managing your Cisco Enterprise Agreement matters more than signing it
241 Software complexity is quietly eroding margins across the channel. Multiple contracts, different renewal dates, disconnected architectures, pricing uncertainty and limited visibility into consumption — for many organisations and partners, this is…
West Africa delivers big for MTN Group
155 MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita MTN Group has reported a sharp recovery in earnings for the year to December 2025, swinging from a loss to a profit as a dramatic turnaround…
Shoprite takes majority stake in R&A Cellular
145 Shoprite Group has acquired a majority stake in R&A Cellular, a point-of-sale platform serving South Africa’s informal retail sector, as part of a push to extend its financial services offering beyond…