Stop renting intelligence. Start building it
South African CEOs are under pressure. Competitors are announcing AI wins, boards are demanding productivity gains, and the fear of missing out is driving hasty investments in tools and tokens. By Ravi Bhat, commercial solutions and AI officer at Microsoft South...
Why AI must be built for Africa, not imported into it
The narrative about Africa’s technological future is often framed through the narrow lens that the continent must “catch up” to global innovation. By Gillian Darko, vice-president of strategy at Yellow Card But this framing misses a critical point: Africa has never...
Vodacom SA, SmartOps Fleet aim to grow e-hailing
Vodacom South Africa and SmartOps Fleet have brought together partners from the technology, financial services, automotive and e-hailing sectors, in a new integrated programme designed to broaden participation in South Africa’s growing e-hailing economy. With an...
Hyprop’s SHIFT Gaming Experience crowns national champions
South Africa’s competitive gaming community stepped into the spotlight at Canal Walk, where the national finals of Hyprop’s SHIFT Gaming Experience brought the tournament series to a thrilling close and crowned champions across three titles. Ethan Luck, known by the...
PawaPay licensed as a PSP in Mozambique
Pan-African payments aggregator PawaPay has been granted a Payment Service Provider (PSP) licence by the Bank of Mozambique through its local subsidiary, Quidexplus Mozambique. The authorisation makes PawaPay one of the first companies to be licensed to operate as a...
Paratus Namibia launches Eutelsat’s OneWeb LEO connectivity
Paratus Namibia has launched Eutelsat’s OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite service in Namibia. The new service, designed to appeal countrywide to both the residential and commercial market, combines high-speed, low-latency satellite connectivity with competitive...
Business Analyst
A South African payment solutions provider and bill aggregator that lets customers pay bills, subscriptions, municipal accounts, and insurance using a unique reference number, is seeking a Business Analyst to support the development and delivery of innovative payment...
Business Analyst – Western Cape Stellenbosch
A South African payment solutions provider and bill aggregator that lets customers pay bills, subscriptions, municipal accounts, and insurance using a unique reference number, is seeking a Business Analyst to support the development and delivery of innovative payment...
Goodall apologises to NTT, agrees to pay back R208m
Jason Goodall, former CEO of NTT and the Dimension Data Group, has admitted wrongdoing in the sale of the Johannesburg Campus in 2019, and will pay back about R208,6-million. His admission comes as NTT is proceeding against Goodall and other former executives Jeremy...
SA must put jobs at the centre of its AI future
South Africans are embracing AI, but turning that appetite into economic opportunity will require trained educators, reliable Internet, affordable access, recognised skills pathways, scaling of existing financing models, and investment in the country’s own languages,...
Credit risk and policy gaps still hinder intra-African trade
Preliminary results from the 2026 PAFTRAC Africa CEO Trade Survey - presented at the WTO Public Forum in Geneva - reveals that 81,3% of senior executives expect their cross-border activity to expand over the next 12 months. Intra-African commerce has overtaken China,...
AI puts Africa on the cybersecurity front line
AI was linked to more than half of the cybercrime cases recorded in Africa in 2025, according to Interpol's African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026. Southern Africa was reported as the most targeted country on the continent, accounting for 92% of Africa's...