116 Most software doesn’t fail all at once. It drifts. What starts as a well-structured system slowly becomes harder to change, new features take longer, integrations become fragile and workarounds creep in…
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Vodacom Business beefs up advisory board with three key appointments
128 Vodacom Business has announced three additional appointments to its Extraordinary Business Advisory Board, strengthening its work to provide enterprise customers with insights and guidance on emerging technologies and business solutions. The…
Record R99-million payday for MTN CEO Ralph Mupita
136 MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita’s total remuneration for the 2025 financial year jumped by more than half to R99.3-million – the highest single-year package he has…
Alfa’s electric rebel
152Alfa Romeo’s Junior Elettrica Veloce is a hot hatch dressed as an EV – and it’s just brilliant to drive.
MTN director traded shares during closed period
128 MTN Group non-executive director Vincent Rague A non-executive director of MTN Group “inadvertently” traded the company’s shares during a JSE closed period in early January 2026, and did so without obtaining…
MTN warns gambling is hurting its prepaid business in South Africa
118 MTN South Africa CEO Ferdi Moolman Online gambling has emerged as a surprising drag on MTN South Africa’s prepaid business, with the parent group citing the surge in betting activity as…
Former Nedbank CIO heads to the South Pacific
124 Nedbank CIO Ray Naicker Former Nedbank CIO Ray Naicker will soon join BSP Financial Group as CIO. BSP is the largest bank and financial services provider in Papua New Guinea (PNG)…
ANC piles pressure on Malatsi over AI policy fiasco
137 Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi could be summoned to parliament to account for the AI-generated hallucinations that forced the embarrassing withdrawal of South Africa’s draft national…
‘It was my idea’: Musk claims paternity of OpenAI
125 Elon Musk reacts at a federal courthouse during a recess of the trial. Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters Elon Musk took the stand on Tuesday at a high-stakes trial over the future of OpenAI,…
WhatsApp becomes the doctor’s office in Turn.io’s voice AI play
144 Cape Town-based messaging platform Turn.io is betting that voice AI can do for the world’s 739 million non-literate adults what text-based digital services have failed to: deliver healthcare to a phone…