207 At the start of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic caused the entire world to shut down. Overnight, our offices and schools went virtual, gyms launched YouTube channels and family gatherings morphed into…
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Tech salaries in South Africa are bouncing back
186 IT sector salaries are showing signs of a resurgence following a dip that led to South African salary offers shrinking by as much as 44% in certain cases, according to Pnet….
Post Office still faces liquidation risk as policy rift widens
156 Deputy communications minister Mondli Gungubele Deputy communications minister Mondli Gungubele has publicly distanced himself from minister Solly Malatsi’s decision to strip the South African Post Office of its exclusive right to…
Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Series launches with podcast recorded at Tugela Falls
203 In a first-of-its-kind collaboration between tech and content, Xiaomi teamed up with the New Gen Podcast to do something no one has attempted before: record The Toughest Podcast Ever at the…
SABC says it can’t afford to cover the next election
142 The SABC has warned it will be unable to cover South Africa’s upcoming local government elections adequately. This is after national treasury declined its request for R120-million in dedicated funding, prompting…
Home affairs’ R10 ID fee is forcing companies to rethink identity verification
177 There has been a drastic increase in the cost of real-time identity verification for banks, fintechs and mobile communications companies in South Africa, resulting in a rethink as to how they…
EU regulators take aim at WhatsApp
169 EU competition regulators on Monday charged Meta Platforms with breaching antitrust rules by blocking artificial intelligence rivals from its messaging service, WhatsApp, and threatened to impose interim measures against the US…
Paratus lights up new East Africa fibre highway linking Goma and Mombasa
170 Paratus Group chief commercial officer Martin Cox Pan-African telecommunications and network services provider Paratus Group has today switched on a major new fibre route in East Africa, directly connecting Mombasa on…
Vumatel tops a million subscribers in South African broadband milestone
167 Maziv CEO Dietlof Mare Maziv-owned fibre operator Vumatel has crossed the one million subscriber mark, cementing its position as South Africa’s largest fibre-to-the-home network operator and underscoring the rapid pace at…
Why the future of enterprise AI is hybrid and agentic
196 A few years ago, I wrote about how product teams shouldn’t care about Kubernetes. The goal was to build “golden paths” through internal developer platforms that abstract away infrastructure complexity, allowing…