187 MTN Group and Vodacom Group, the two giants of South Africa’s telecommunications sector, each clock up more than R1-billion in revenue in just two and three days, respectively. TechCentral analysed companies…
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How South African executives can crack the AI ROI code
172 The author, Workday’s Jannie Malan Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from boardroom curiosity to boardroom mandate. Across South Africa — from Sandton’s financial district to Cape Town’s technology hubs — executives…
SA firm opens Africa’s largest space hardware factory
164 Image: NewSpace Systems Somerset West-based spacecraft component maker NewSpace Systems has opened a 5 200sq m manufacturing facility that it claims is the largest commercial space hardware manufacturing plant in Africa. The…
OpenClaw fever grips China
179 Participants hold their laptops as they line up to install and set up OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent, outside the Baidu offices in Beijing. Florence Lo/Reuters Fan Xinquan, a retired electronics…
OpenAI plans desktop ‘super app’
157 OpenAI has confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that it plans to fold its ChatGPT app, coding platform Codex and browser into a single desktop “super app” to simplify user experience. OpenAI…
GWM eyes plant options in South Africa
196 Nqobile Dludla/Reuters Chinese car maker Great Wall Motor (GWM) is weighing whether to share a manufacturing facility with another car maker in South Africa or acquire an existing plant if available…
Eskom must build renewables or face extinction: Mteto Nyati
146 Eskom chairman Mteto Nyati Eskom chairman Mteto Nyati has said the establishment of a fourth entity within the utility’s unbundling plan — a dedicated renewables business called Eskom Green — is…
How Acer Africa is bridging the digital divide through local innovation
185 As we power through 2026, I find myself reflecting on a year of “firsts” for Acer Africa. Last year was not merely about shipping units; it was a year where we…
South Africa wants to tax online gambling. The industry is fighting back
157 As a boom in online gambling across Africa gathers pace, governments are hiking taxes to contain addiction risks and fill depleted state coffers. In by far the biggest market, South Africa,…
Cullinan Holdings CIO Ryan Porter
149 Ryan Porter With more than 25 years in business management and over two decades leading complex IT environments, Cullinan Holdings CIO Ryan Porter has spent his career turning technology into a…