Resellers: Last chance to make your voice heard
Voting in the Channelwise Awards 2025 has been extended to midnight on 13 November – and resellers are urged to make their mark. The Channelwise Awards are the South African IT distribution channel’s most prestigious awards, where resellers and partners get the chance...
Seacom unveils new branding as it plans for Africa’s future
Kathy Gibson reports - Seacom, which pioneered Africa’s submarine cable boom 16 years ago, is planning a major new undersea network. Seacom 2.0, due to be completed by 2029, is designed to carry the data traffic that will be generated by Africa’s embrace of...
Cell C partners to offer Huawei Cloud
Kathy Gibson reports - Cell C Business has penned a strategic partnership with Huawei Cloud to offer customers solutions built on the Huawei Cloud. Steven Chen, MD of Huawei Cloud South Africa, points out that Huawei has built 101 data centres globally - three of them...
SA company among winners of 2025 G20 TechSprint challenge
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) have announced the winners of the 2025 G20 TechSprint challenge on trust and integrity in scalable and open finance. Hosted under South Africa’s G20 Presidency, the 2025 G20 TechSprint...
SMEs aspire to sustainability, but obstacles abound
Sage’s SME Sustainable Finance Stocktake: Turning Ambition into Action report reveals record levels of sustainability ambition among small businesses, but warns that slow progress on finance and reporting risks is leaving millions behind and putting global net-zero...
Trade can power climate ambition
Trade can be a powerful policy to achieving the Paris Agreement, the 2015 global accord under which all nations pledged to limit warming to well below 2 °C, pursue efforts to 1.5 °C, and submit updated national climate plans every five years. This is according to the...
Teraco, NAPAfrica accelerate the continent’s digital transformation
Teraco has introduced a new API for its Africa Cloud Exchange (ACX) enabling partners to automate cloud connectivity and enhance hybrid and multi-cloud performance across Africa. At the same time, NAPAfrica has reached a major milestone of 6Tbps of traffic and 680...
Cassava doubles down on AI in Africa
Kathy Gibson reports – Cassava is using the first batch of 12 000 Nvidia GPUs it has secured to build the first of five African AI factories in Cape Town. This week, the group has also been appointed as Africa’s first preferred Nvidia Cloud Partner (NCP), adding to...
How you resign will have a lasting impact
As 2025 draws to a close, employees planning to resign in the coming months (or in the new year) should prioritise leaving with grace, as resignations today are far more than a mere formality - they’re a defining moment in a professional’s career, a leadership expert...
Solar installers cut costs with cheaper standard AC cable
The solar industry is seeing a sharp rise in unsafe and non-compliant wiring practices as some installers and suppliers continue using standard AC power cables in photovoltaic (PV) solar installations. South Ocean Electric Wire (SOEW), an Alrode-based JSE-listed cable...
Producers are paying for everyone else’s compliance
South Africa’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework was meant to promote accountability and sustainability. Instead, it’s become a system where many producers unknowingly subsidise competitors, lose oversight of their own budgets, and surrender control to...
Guardz partners with Check Point Software on email security for MSPs
Guardz has announced a new strategic technology partnership with Check Point to embed Harmony Email directly into the Guardz platform. The collaboration enhances Guardz’s AI-native, unified cybersecurity platform with Check Point’s patented, inline API-based email...