Infobip launches AI fan companion for global football

Infobip has launched PitchMate, a new AI-powered conversational agent that brings football fans closer to the action of the world’s biggest football tournament. Purpose-built for the global football audience, PitchMate joins the TGR Haas F1 Team RaceMate — Infobip’s...

AI is secretly disenfranchising the youth who use it ‘best’

In 1976, South Africa’s youth took to the streets to claim educational agency and the hard-won right to self-determination. Fifty years later, our young digital natives face a quieter, subtler crisis: the gradual surrender of that very critical reasoning and agency to...

SARS improves auto-assessments, but taxpayers warned to check carefully

As the 2026 filing season opens, millions of South Africans will receive a SARS auto-assessment based on data SARS already holds. SARS has enhanced parts of its auto-assessment process and online tax assistant, TaxTim advises taxpayers to do a careful review before...

SA has too many ways to pay. Will they make cards extinct?

South Africa has never had more ways to pay, writes Ntombenhle Annegbe-Enahoro, IPP product manager at Ecentric. At the point of sale in 2026, a consumer can tap or insert a card, open a banking app and make a PayShap transfer, scan a QR while deciding to split the...

Vox is having a Green Week

Vox is kicking off its Green Week between 25 November and 2 December with a Vox Fibre to the Business (FTTB) Double Up Promo. FTTB orders signed between 18 November and 2 December 2019, will automatically receive double the data for the duration of their contract with...

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MTN adds summer specials

MTN is turning 25 and is making summer special for itsrepaid customers. This year, new and existing MTN prepaid customers will experience that "Winning Feeling" during MTN's Summer campaign by playing MTN CakeCrush. With over a R100-million in prizes including 12 Polo...

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