New vehicle market grows despite economic pressure
South Africa's new vehicle market continues to outperform expectations, with June recording the strongest sales performance for the month since 2007 and keeping the industry firmly on track to surpass 600 000 new vehicle sales in 2026. According to naamsa | The...
SARS clarifies new declaration process
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has since clarified how its new declaration questionnaire will operate during the 2026 Filing Season. The declaration alert is not issued before a taxpayer submits their return, as was initially understood. Instead, it is...
Memory crisis weighs on Africa’s smartphone market
The global memory shortage and price increases has had an adverse effect on Africa’s smartphone shipments, which declined 12% YoY in Q1 2026, according to Counterpoint Research’s Market Monitor Service. Although the region sees a high number of events in the first...
Chinese debutant is world’s most powerful supercomputer
The 67th edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has been released – with LineShine, a previously unlisted system installed in China, debuting at Number 1 and displacing El Capitan as the world’s most powerful supercomputer as measured...
Markets get ‘cold shower’ as tech rout forces reality check
Global stock markets sold off sharply yesterday as a wave of selling swept through tech and semiconductor stocks, prompting investors to reassess some of the assumptions that have driven markets higher over the last two years. This is the bearish analysis from Nigel...
Affordability reshapes SA vehicle demand
South Africa’s passenger vehicle market remained resilient in the first quarter of 2026, but demand is evolving. Rising affordability pressures, higher fuel costs, the growth of Chinese brands and shifting powertrain preferences are reshaping the automotive landscape....
African entrepreneurs wow Amazon
Nine companies from South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, and Cameroon have been selected for Amazon’s fourth AWS Social Entrepreneur Accelerator – the largest representation of any continent. The Accelerator brings together a global community of social...
NAPAfrica, ZANOG enhance community-driven interconnection in Cape Town
Cape Town’s emergence as a critical digital gateway for Africa continues to gain momentum, driven by growing interconnection demand and ongoing infrastructure investment. The recent expansion of the Cape Town Internet Exchange (CINX), operated by the Internet Exchange...
SA booking platform compromised
Customers of a South African hospitality company may have been compromised, and could become phishing victims. Cybernews researchers have uncovered an exposed server belonging to a threat actor containing documentation of attacks against accommodation-sector...
‘A defining opportunity for Africa to leapfrog into the AI era’
The transition from legacy 2G/3G networks to 4G and 5G will act as critical infrastructure for Africa's participation in the AI economy, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report: Sub-Saharan Africa, which says AI and uplink-heavy applications are set to...
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Red Hat launches agentic AI developer tools
Red Hat has announced expanded capabilities across its developer portfolio specifically built for the requirements of AI agents. Through the newly-available Red Hat Desktop and enhancements to Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite, Red Hat intends to smooth the transition...
Connectivity becomes a board-level strategic issue
There was a time when connectivity was seen as infrastructure, or worse, as background noise for the IT department while business decision-makers focused on more important decisions. Those days are long gone, writes Willem van Zyl, chief technology officer at...
Cyber governance central to effective enterprise risk management
Across many organisations, cyber governance is still treated as a parallel discipline to enterprise risk management rather than a core component of it. By Ryan Boyes, senior security administrator at Galix This separation is difficult to sustain, as information...
Banks have digitised the wrong things, and customers are paying for it
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AI’s hardware squeeze drives storage rental
Enterprises are being battered by a perfect storm in data storage, writes Hemant Harie, group chief technology officer at Data Management Professionals South Africa. Artificial intelligence (AI) workloads consume capacity at a pace no legacy architecture can sustain,...
The case for treating cybersecurity as a corporate sustainability metric
ESG discussions in South African boards generally default to carbon, community impact and governance process. While those remain essential, they don’t tell the full story of organisational sustainability, writes Richard Ford, group chief technology officer of...
Data and AI can enable a proactive government
For decades, public service delivery has largely followed a reactive model: citizens identify a need, submit an application, and wait for a response. By Ntsako Baloyi, data and AI lead, and Varaidzo Mureriwa, MD in the health and public service business at Accenture,...
AI, global uncertainty to top talks at Southern Africa’s leading cyber security event
Geopolitical uncertainty and AI’s impact on the security landscape are expected to top the agenda when over 1,000 cyber security stakeholders gather for the annual ITWeb Security Summit in Johannesburg next month. The ITWeb Security Summit, renowned as the must-attend...
Discovery Bank rolls out AI-powered services
Discovery Bank has announced a major expansion of its AI-powered banking capabilities, alongside new security and servicing enhancements, as well as a rewards partnership with DStv. Hylton Kallner, CEO of Discovery Bank, says: “We are entering the next phase in...
Future-proof your career with transferable skills
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