Former communications minister Dina Pule presided over one of the ICT sector’s darkest chapters.
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Palo Alto CIO Meerah Rajavel tells TechCentral why going slow on AI is no longer an option for security teams.
Emile Burger is stepping down as CEO of Tarsus Distribution. He had been in the role for just 14 months.
Tech billionaires promise AI abundance underwritten by a basic income. Run South Africa’s budget and the thesis unravels.
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MTN has linked the remuneration of its senior executives with the group’s environmental, social and governance targets.
The South African start-up Quro Medical is pioneering hospital-level monitoring of patients, but in their own homes, using advanced technologies it has developed in-house.
The Post Office will no longer pay beneficiaries of the social relief of distress R350 grant at its branches, blaming long queues for the decision.
The Wireless Access Providers Association has called on government to free up the 6GHz band, claiming that doing so could drive a wave of economic growth.
Ford’s Silverton motor vehicle assembly plant in Pretoria has greatly reduced its reliance on Eskom after switching on a giant solar installation.
South Africa is headed for a record year of power cuts if the rate of station breakdowns fails to improve, particularly at coal-fuelled plants.
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HP will slash as much as 16% of its workforce as part of a broad restructuring meant to cut costs and boost sales growth amid the company’s first change in top leadership in four years.
Facebook has been accused of reverting to the “digital Dark Ages” after serious concerns were raised that plans for message encryption could prevent child abusers and terrorists being caught.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the fifth-richest person in the world, was asked by an employee to respond to an assertion by US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders that billionaires shouldn’t exist.
Nigeria vies with South Africa as the continent’s largest economy and is its most populous, but it’s a “sleeping giant” in the world of fintech.
Perhaps best known for its foray into pornography, TopTV’s anti-climax in the world of broadcasting has resulted in a little-known fact: South Africa has suffered a loss of almost R1,2bn because of this venture, which critics say it should not have flirted with in the first place. Three arms
Whatever happened to cracking open Telkom’s last mile of copper cables into homes and businesses to rival broadband operators? The industry regulator has gone silent on the issue, leaving industry players wondering whether local-loop unbundling has quietly been shelved
