252 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…
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Setback for South Africa’s electricity market reform
212 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
265 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
238 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
246 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
219 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
239 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…
The MSP stack is collapsing under its own weight. AI is forcing a reset
338 Managed service providers (MSPs) have always dealt in complexity. What’s changed is how that complexity now behaves: it doesn’t merely slow delivery; it quietly multiplies cost and risk. Many providers are…
Jury finds Meta enabled child exploitation
275 A US jury has found Meta Platforms violated New Mexico state law in a lawsuit brought by the state attorney-general, who accused the company of misleading users about the safety of…
Why South Africa’s technology leaders choose TechCentral
314 If you’re a CIO, CTO or technology decision maker in South Africa, the publication you read matters. It shapes how you think about strategy, risk and opportunity. It signals to your…