Author: Duncan McLeod

South Africa’s digital television migration project has once again come unstuck. Is it time to give up on the project altogether? By Duncan McLeod.

Deploying data centres under the sea is not only feasible, it is logistically, environmentally and economically practical. That’s the finding from Microsoft, whose Project Natick has been experimenting with the idea of subsea data centres for several years.

The ZA Central Registry has introduced a “Registry Lock” feature for .za domain names, adding an extra layer of security – for a fee – for domain owners.

South Africa will complete its digital migration project by 2022 at the earliest, the acting government director-general with operational oversight of the project said in an exclusive interview with TechCentral.

Telkom shareholders have shot down a special resolution at its AGM that would have allowed the company to issue more shares for cash if it had been approved.

Podcast | TechCentral’s Duncan McLeod interviews Absa Group CIO Wilhelm Krige about the mammoth project, now mostly completed, of separating the banking giant’s IT systems from former parent Barclays.

Santie Botha and Khanyisile Kweyama are stepping down from the board of Telkom, while Alphonzo Samuels will join the board along with Herman Singh.

Alviva Holdings said on Wednesday that it’s full-year headline earnings will fall by more than 50%, though it said its prospects have improved since a disappointing set of interim results earlier this year.

After Naspers was blocked from acquiring a controlling 60% stake in specialist car-buying service WeBuyCars earlier this year, Transaction Capital has announced it is taking a 49.9% stake in the company.

JSE-listed technology group Mustek reported a 9.4% increase in revenue in the year ended 30 June 2020, in spite of three months of the reporting period including the Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa.