Oct 19, 2026
The South African Weather Service gave the clearest sign yet on 1 September: this El Niño is on course to become the strongest event in living memory, with sea surface temperatures already tracking past 3°C above normal. A national outlook can’t say which town...
Oct 19, 2026
While the price of data in South Africa continues its welcome downward trend, the overall cost of digital communications requires urgent attention. ISPA, South Africa’s official internet Industry Representative Body (IRB), says little action is evident when it comes...
Oct 19, 2026
South African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have entered the local government election period with clear expectations around the conditions needed to operate, invest and grow. Municipal service delivery, good governance and the effective management of illegal...
Oct 19, 2026
Nvidia has announced the availability of Nvidia RTX Spark laptops, bringing together RTX graphics and Nvidia’s full-stack AI platform in slim, premium Windows PCs for accelerated creation, immersive gaming and powerful local AI — rolling out from ASUS, Dell, HP,...
Oct 19, 2026
Intel has enabled day-0 support for Meta’s Muse Spark Open across Intel Xeon processors and Intel data center GPU platforms, Intel GPU D-series, through targeted low-bit model quantisation. Meta’s official open-weight release of Muse Spark Open, an...
Oct 19, 2026
AI course enrollments in South Africa increased 75% year over year, while enrollments in critical thinking courses rose 132%, according to Coursera’s Global Skills Report 2026. South Africa also ranks second among the 11 sub-Saharan African countries covered and 73rd...
