115 Sub-Saharan Africans boosted their savings at the fastest pace in more than a decade, driven by the growing impact of mobile money accounts across the continent. The share of adults in…
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MTN Group appoints new chief enterprise officer
120 David Behr MTN Group has appointed David Behr as its group chief enterprise business officer with immediate effect. Behr will lead the JSE-listed telecommunications group’s integrated enterprise business unit following the recent…
Eskom targets 32GW green energy shift by 2040
107 Eskom aims to shift to mainly clean energy sources by 2040 from its current predominantly coal-based generation fleet, it said on Wednesday as it laid out its latest plans for the…
Temu responds to counterfeit goods warning in South Africa
82 Chinese e-commerce marketplace Temu says it takes intellectual property rights seriously after reports that merchants were listing counterfeit products in South Africa. These included merchandise from local sports teams like the…
Kruger Park’s white rhinos get a hi-tech lifeline
106 Dehorned white rhino in the Kruger National Park. Image: Bernard Dupont South Africa has launched a plan to rebuild the Kruger National Park’s white rhino population — from around 2 000 to…
The fake news website that fooled Google in South Africa
132 A fake news website that has caused panic in South Africa in recent weeks after being promoted by Google News is using an infamous proxy service to shield its owner’s identity….
Icann bid to delay Afrinic election fails – MyBroadband
95 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) got a bloody nose in the Mauritian Supreme Court on Thursday following an attempt to delay the election of a new Afrinic…
South Africa arrested 39 people for illegal online gambling – MyBroadband
86 South Africa is struggling to crack down on online gambling, with only 39 arrests being made in the past five financial years. This is according to police minister Senzo Mchunu, who…
South Africa loosens media ownership rules – but keeps one hand on the remote
115 South Africa’s proposed changes to foreign ownership restrictions on local broadcasters do not go far enough to remove the “red tape” that inhibits foreign direct investment in the country’s broadcasting sector,…
Prominent South African financial companies dragged into Internet controversy – MyBroadband
129 Standard Bank, Momentum Metropolitan, and two South African universities found themselves entangled in a heated controversy over the governance of Africa’s Internet infrastructure. Special elections for the African Network Information Centre…