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South Africa is behind its neighbours on the plumbing of digital IDs

South Africa to extradite US cyberfraud-gang suspects to US

Newspaper group Caxton deploys AI copy editors

Why businesses are moving n8n onto their own servers

Why Apple can’t tell you who its R50 000 iPhone is for

Nitda, NDPC and Galaxy Backbone back CyFrica 2026

‘There are no adults in the room’: the AI safety exodus

US in move to counter Huawei in Africa

Lesaka’s first profit comes as its merchant business goes backwards

South Africa’s electric car floodgates are opening

SAPS wants to deploy AI bodycams with facial recognition

Disney+ users have a month to move to a new app

MTN puts a price on network quality

From foldgate to the iPhone Duo: the strange history of folding phones

How much Apple’s iPhone Duo will cost in South Africa

Reserve Bank says its approach to stablecoins is still unsettled

End of an era for South Africa’s payments system

Meet the CIO | Shoprite’s Chris Shortt on what a supermarket becomes

Meta’s new AI agent can spend your money on your behalf

Can an online school produce a scientist? CambriLearn has an independent answer

A petaflop on a desk – rethinking AI infrastructure for South Africa

Coalition leads public revolt against treasury’s crypto draft

Rubicon’s EV charging network is profitable – and growing fast

Vodacom recruits former JSE chief as chair succession begins

Shoprite’s CTO is thinking of a future where new recruits arrive with their own AI agents

How dual-source technology is changing laser engraving

Why SA homes need better Wi-Fi, not faster internet

Dis-Chem gets serious about e-commerce – again

The world map is messing with your head

Huawei, Xiaomi crash Apple’s party with new foldable flagships

The man now carrying South Africa’s auto industry fight

Most enterprises don’t have an identity strategy – they have a patchwork

UN warns AI could disrupt democracy itself

AI guardrails: the fastest way to move fast

R1.5-billion to switch off the sun

DStv’s biggest shake-up in 15 years lands on 17 September

Ageing Safe cable prompts new R1.7-billion Indian Ocean link

The case against a light-touch AI policy for South Africa

The grid unbundling finally has a deadline

Icasa to investigate what South Africans pay to communicate

Rural South Africa does not need six towers to have a choice

Share manipulation behind Africa Bitcoin debarments, FSCA says

OpenAI chases Anthropic’s enterprise lead with GPT-6 Astra

Cyberattack hits South Africa’s biggest water utility

Why electric trucks are beating electric cars to South Africa

Only one in 10 township businesses sells online

Rural South Africans should not have to trade competition for coverage

Adrian Gore sets an October date for Discovery’s ‘super bank’

How to build a security operations centre that actually works

Discovery bolts AI-driven healthtech onto Vitality with Icario deal

Uber retreats from key African markets

DStv’s biggest package overhaul in 12 years takes shape

Winstone Jordaan on building a national EV charging network

Report shows big shifts in online spending in South Africa

Teraco’s electricity consumption triples in four years

Paratus Uganda first to market with Starlink service

‘This is not circular’: Jensen Huang defends $3.5-billion MediaTek deal

Woolworths’ online business is going nowhere fast

FSCA debars CEO of JSE-listed bitcoin treasury company

New OpenAI model can find and exploit unknown security flaws on its own

Wiocc lands $300-million from Saudi and African backers

Solid8 brings AlgoSec Horizon to Southern Africa

Ren-Flex installs Africa’s first HP Indigo 200K

China is rewriting the rules of open-source software

The John Ternus era begins at Apple

If it quacks like a duck: Kganyago on regulating fintechs

South Africans are buying fewer phones and paying more for them

Telecoms uptime is as much a finance question as an engineering one

Digicloud recruits African partners for Google SecOps push

NEWORDER brings Lasso’s AI agent controls to South Africa

Shoprite closes its bet on the spaza till

‘Has the car had a haircut?’

The Apple, OpenAI feud just got a lot uglier

Huawei is ramping up spending on R&D

LSD Open earns Red Hat automation specialisation

Eskom is still counting irregular spending from years ago

The R45-billion missing from Eskom’s income statement

Eskom’s profit doubles even as it sells less electricity

Eskom and business lobby call a truce over grid reform

Altman and Musk take their feud to the developers

Nvidia’s best customers are becoming its biggest threat

Nasa launches telescope that will map two billion galaxies

Chinese car makers go after South Africa’s EV and bakkie buyers