114 Mazen Mroué, CEO of MTN Digital Infrastructure MTN Group’s digital infrastructure arm has joined a US$45-million funding round in ORAN Development Company (ODC), a US-based start-up building AI-native radio access network…
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War kills rate cut hopes as Reserve Bank warns of inflation spike
98 Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago The South African Reserve Bank maintained its main lending rate at 6.75% on Thursday, saying caution was needed as higher energy prices triggered by the US-Israel…
The R16-billion tech giant hiding in plain sight
105 Datatec group CEO Jens Montanana JSE-listed technology group Datatec has delivered a total shareholder return of 361%¹ over five years, making it one of the best-performing stocks in the local technology…
Solly Malatsi’s Post Office gamble
86 Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi has denied claims by business rescue practitioners (BRPs) for the South African Post Office that his refusal to allow them to…
Setback for South Africa’s electricity market reform
90 The launch of South Africa’s wholesale electricity market has been pushed back from 1 April to the third quarter of 2026, the National Transmission Company South Africa (NTCSA) said on Thursday….
Africa powers mobile money to $2-trillion milestone
94 Global mobile money transactions surpassed US$2-trillion in 2025, doubling in just four years, according to the GSMA’s latest State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money. The mobile telecommunications industry body…
Durban’s finance leaders are done with AI theatre
92 Finance teams are not short of dashboards, automation tools or AI pilots. What they are short of is time and confidence. Time to close, time to forecast, time to interrogate variance…
The conflict of interest at the heart of PayShap’s slow adoption
109 Imagine it’s 2036. Unemployment has been halved, business confidence is robust, and millions of small and medium-sized enterprises are powering sustainable growth. South Africa finally looks like a country realising its…
FirstRand ups stake in Optasia in R1.5-billion deal
91 Banking group FirstRand has increased its shareholding in JSE-listed fintech Optasia to 26.1% after acquiring an additional 6% stake in a deal worth about R1.48-billion. The banking group purchased 74.1 million…
Defend your cloud with Altron Digital Business
98 As organisations accelerate their digital transformation journeys, cloud adoption has become central to agility, innovation and scale. But as workloads move beyond traditional data centres into hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the…