Pro-AI commencement speakers are getting booed as Gen Z turns against the technology and its layoffs.

Eskom has threatened to cut power to parts of Johannesburg as City Power's debt passes R5.2-billion.

There are serious questions about the attacks that have been mounted against South African hosting companies in recent days.

Kenya’s high court has blocked the 15% Safaricom stake sale to Vodacom, pending a constitutional challenge.

Opinion | Most organisations aren't under-tooled but under-led – and AI will only widen that leadership gap, writes Jackie Kennedy.

Toyota South Africa has finally put a price on its first battery-electric vehicle, the bZ4X.

South Africa's internet infrastructure is under attack, with hosting providers hit and a ransom demanded.

E-mails demanding extortion money, to be paid in monero, have been sent to South African web hosting companies.

South Africa's internet infrastructure is under attack, with hosting providers hit and a ransom demanded.

Pope Leo's first encyclical takes on AI, with Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah joining the Vatican launch.

GoTyme's CEO is candid about churn risk as the bank completes its rebrand from TymeBank and moves clients on a new app.

South Africa's banks are taking divergent paths on AI, with Investec insisting people, not machines, define the institution.

Podcast | Joubert Roux on Charge's R1.8-billion plan: an off-grid charging station every 150km along South Africa's highways.

WeBuyCars plans to offer its AI-powered Inspectify vehicle inspection platform to the broader used-car market.

Africa Finance Corporation has committed up to $100-million to tech fund managers to deepen local venture capital.

Africa Bitcoin Corporation, formerly Altvest Capital, is moving its JSE listing from AltX to the main board.

Campaigners want a major Cape Town data centre plan blocked until its water and power impact is disclosed.

Microsoft estimates 23.1% of working-age South Africans use generative AI - well ahead of the rest of the continent.

State-aligned Iranian media is floating a plan to charge the world’s tech giants rent on subsea cables in the Strait of Hormuz.

Anthropic will brief central bankers around the world on cyber vulnerabilities its new Mythos model has uncovered.

Starlink now operates in two dozen African countries, with Uganda becoming the latest to licence the satellite service.

Samsung Electronics and a trade union are holding last-ditch talks to avert a strike threatening global supply chains.

The recovery is holding, but Eskom's own modelling warns of a possible return to blackouts by decade’s end.

Group CITO Johnson Idesoh says the bank will deploy “super agents” to scan its systems and shorten patch cycles.

The expansion is central to the home affairs department's plan to finally retire the much-defrauded green ID book.

The communications minister has thrown his weight behind a section 25BB extension that the sector has long sought.

Seacom has told TechCentral it learnt hard lessons about redundancy that all business leaders should heed.

Government must lean more on the private sector in a fiscally constrained environment, communications minister Solly Malatsi has said.

Icasa has told minister Solly Malatsi that full alignment with the ICT sector code requires changes to legislation.

An independent panel chaired by Wits AI researcher Benjamin Rosman will help rebuild the withdrawn draft AI policy.

Herotel now has 284 850 connected fibre-to-the-home connections, mostly in smaller towns and townships.

Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon delivered strong service revenue growth for MTN, lifting group Ebitda to R27.6-billion.

Vodacom Group Shameel Joosub has warned of severe upward pressure on device prices as the RAM crisis intensifies.

Diesel above R30/l is pushing South African fleets towards electric vehicles. Consumer interest is also on the up.

Streaming giant Netflix is keen to remind regulators and economies of its weight as growth pressures mount.

With voice revenue falling and customer growth stalled, Vodacom is struggling to cash in on surging data traffic.

Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has compared voice’s decline to the same trajectory SMS followed into irrelevance.

Vodacom and MTN groups' fintech arms now process a combined value of over $1-trillion/year in transactions.

Prosus is selling a 5% Delivery Hero stake to Aspex Management to fulfil European Commission commitments.

The goodwill makes Vodacom's balance sheet vulnerable to impairment if Maziv fails to deliver expected growth.

Egypt and Safaricom drove a 22.9% jump in headline earnings as the South African business posted only modest growth.

Industry body says the fiscus-first model is starving the very sector South Africa depends on for connectivity.

Many mergers and acquisitions will now escape Competition Commission review – but a senior lawyer sees a tech blind spot.

The economics of desktop computing have, for the first time in the PC’s long history, been broken by the data centre, writes Duncan McLeod.

Airtel Africa has delayed its mobile money initial public offering to late 2026, citing war-driven margin pressures.

Stability is needed as Sita looks to re-establish itself as a trusted service provider for government IT services.

The Competition Commission has opened the door to settlement talks over an alleged 2014 market-division pact.

While the dollar SaaS stack squeezes IT budgets, Zoho's rand-priced bundle is gaining ground in South Africa.

Digital identity experts have welcomed new draft regulations as a good starting point but have flagged areas of concern.

Broadcaster-only election rules leave South Africa exposed to the AI-driven disinformation already shaping votes elsewhere, writes Duncan McLeod.