Author: Duncan McLeod

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

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

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

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

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

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

Naspers’s Prosus is slashing the Brazilian business’s profit forecast to defend it from well-funded competitive rivals.

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

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

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