244 Everyone agrees that small and medium enterprises are the backbone of the South African economy. But the reality on the ground tells a different story – too many small businesses are…
Category: Tech
OpenAI takes the fight to Elon Musk
173 Elon Musk. David Swanson/Reuters OpenAI has urged the California and Delaware attorneys-general in the US to consider investigating Elon Musk and his associates’ “improper and anticompetitive behavior” ahead of a trial…
Cabinet approves draft AI policy for public comment
252 Cabinet has approved the publication of South Africa’s draft national AI policy for public comment, minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said. Ntshavheni said on Thursday during a press conference that…
Icasa data confirms the scale of South Africa’s pay-TV collapse
217 The number of pay-TV subscribers in South Africa fell below seven million for the first time in at least five years, dropping 9.6% from 7.4 million to 6.7 million in the…
How agentic AI is reshaping banking in South Africa
386 The author, Absa’s Lindelani Ramukumba Rewind just a few years and large language models and generative AI were barely on the public radar. Yet the technology has already evolved into its…
South Africa’s 5G boom is bypassing rural areas: Icasa
366 South Africa’s 5G population coverage surged from 46.6% to 58% in a single year, the biggest network coverage jump recorded in communications regulator Icasa’s latest State of the ICT Sector report…
DeepSeek V4 to run on Huawei silicon as China builds its own AI stack
384 China’s DeepSeek’s new model, called V4, will run on the latest chips designed by Huawei Technologies, The Information reported on Friday (paywall). In preparation for V4’s launch, Chinese tech giants, including…
WhatsApp is eating South African operators’ revenue
364 South Africa’s mobile operators carried 21.5% more voice traffic in 2025 than the year before but earned R10.4-billion less from mobile services, according to Icasa’s latest State of the ICT Sector…
Gaping holes in South African government cyber defences
347 Nearly two-thirds of South African government entities assessed by the auditor-general have notable weaknesses in their cybersecurity defences, with penetration testing revealing that multiple government environments were breached during the 2024/2025…
EV charging start-up Charge bypasses JSE for token-based raise
315 Charge chairman Joubert Roux Off-grid EV charging infrastructure company Charge (formerly Zero Carbon Charge) is planning a public investment offering in the coming months, bypassing the JSE in favour of a…