New battery factory drives industrialisation, job creation

Kathy Gibson reports - Actom has opened a new assembly line for locally-assembled LiFePO₄ battery energy storage systems (BESS). Yesterday, the company also announced that is expanding manufacturing capacity for its high voltage equipment. These moves are significant...

Herotel brings Amazon’s Leo satellite services to SA

Kathy Gibson reports – Herotel has signed a distribution agreement with Amazon to bring its Leo Constellation satellite service to South Africa. Set to go live in 2027, South Africa will be among one of the first countries in the world to connect to the low earth...

Social media the top culprit as deepfake fraud grows

Deepfake attacks are growing, and costing people more. Scial media is the main culprit

Muse highlights privacy, copyright issues in AI training

Copyright and privacy issues under the spotlight as Meta withdraws Muse feature

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...

OECD launches streamlined Hiroshima AI Process Reporting Framework

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has launched version 2.0 of the Hiroshima AI Process voluntary reporting framework. As the only global framework for companies to report on their efforts to promote safe, secure, and trustworthy AI, the...

Nvidia Vera CPU packs a punch

The shift to agentic AI creates a new CPU requirement for the AI factory: fast cores, massive memory bandwidth and the ability to sustain high performance when all cores are active. Initial benchmark results published by Phoronix  show that the Nvidia Vera CPU is...

Pick ‘n Pay customer data compromised

An early version of Pick n Pay’s on-demand app was been breach, with customer information compromised. Records from 2022 in the app previously known as Bottles and later as Pick n Pay asap! were leaked. The data includes names, contact details and birth dates,...

Same job, different province, different pay

New jobs data shows significant variances in how much professionals in different parts of South Africa can earn based on regional, labour market dynamics. This is according to Pnet’s May 2026 Job Market Trends Report, which includes an exploration of how salary ranges...

Cybersecurity jobs booming – so why aren’t graduates being hired?

South Africa’s cybersecurity sector is facing a growing paradox: demand for cybersecurity professionals continues to rise, yet many graduates are struggling to secure employment. According to experts from the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South...

Is a global hidden hiring bias locking out black graduates?

In corporate graduate recruitment worldwide, candidates are often assessed not only on competence, but also on their relatability – and a new UCT co-led study theorises relatability as a racialised cultural-affective filter that covertly sustains inequality. The new...

Market for enterprise AI coding agents enters new phase

The market for enterprise AI coding agents has entered a new phase of expansion and competitive realignment, according to Gartner, which says this shift is driven by frontier model providers moving up the stack, more agentic workflows, expansion across the software...

Local expertise puts AI to work in East Africa

By Kathy Gibson – East African companies are seizing on the myriad benefits that artificial intelligence (AI) has to offer – but it’s vital that they do so in a considered manner that achieves their productivity goals while safeguarding their corporate systems. With...

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Developers step up in Huawei’s Code4Mzansi competition

The Huawei developer competition, Code4Mzanzi, has kicked off in partnership with the Department of Small Business Development and various academic institutions, including the University of Cape Town, the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria, and the...

Unpacking Africa’s shifting landscape of data, cloud and sovereignty

Over the past few years, the data centre industry has undergone a profound digital transformation as organisations across various sectors continue to aggressively collect, store and analyse vast volumes of data, now called data modeling. By Wiaan Vermaak, group chief...

AI and cybersecurity: Trust must come before scale

As artificial intelligence continues its rapid move from experimentation into production environments, 2025 marked a turning point for how organisations approach AI adoption – particularly in the context of cybersecurity, governance and enterprise risk. According to...

AI infrastructure is racing ahead

Imagine a tiny delivery robot navigating a hotel in Tokyo, riding elevators and negotiating its way alone through corridors to deliver a package to the 35th floor. “This is a striking example of how technology can seamlessly interact with the real world - something...

Rethinking readiness in an age of uncertainty

South African businesses are operating in a period of structural change. By Richard Perez, founding director of the Hasso Plattner d-school Afrika at the University of Cape Town In his State of the Nation Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a R1-trillion...

Testing that changes the game

Software testing is a critical part of the software and product development cycle. For years, quality assurance (QA) has been the final gate before a release, a functional validation that the code is ready to go to market. Today, however, despite a growing need for...

R800bn at stake: The urgency of SARS tax modernisation

In his State of the Nation address on 12 February 2026, President Cyril Ramaphosa set out several bold strategies to underpin South Africa’s growth and development – expensive strategies that are likely to apply pressure on the government’s fiscus. By Shannon...

Luno launches crypto and tokenised stocks bundle

Crypto platform Luno has launched what it believes to be South Africa’s first bundle combining market-leading crypto and top tokenised US stocks in a single investment. This provides investors with diversified exposure to two established asset classes through a single...

Leadership development matters for retaining top local talent

As global companies continue to increase investment in leadership development to strengthen retention, South Africa risks falling behind. By Mark Watt, partner at Heidrick & Struggles South Africa Internationally, organisations are lifting leadership development...

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