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Foreign providers sell Rica avoidance as an eSim feature, exposing a gap in South Africa’s Sim-registration rules.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX now operates 75% of all manoeuvrable satellites in orbit and is targeting 10 000 launches a year.
FindHomes wants to replace gut-feel property decisions with deeds data, yield forecasts and a WhatsApp AI agent.
Eskom is in exploratory talks with the World Bank over funding for a multibillion-dollar nuclear programme.
South Africa’s key inflation number hit 4% in April, with fuel prices still rising and interest rate hikes now looking likely.
MTN Group will install GPUs at its African towers to build a distributed AI inference grid, while also investing in AI data centres.
Disney+ has hiked the price of its Premium monthly subscription in South Africa by more than 12%.
Google has put agents into Search and slashed prices to win enterprise business from rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.
Pro-AI commencement speakers are getting booed as Gen Z turns against the technology and its layoffs.