From digital IDs to AI-powered crime fighting, here are the key tech takeaways from Sona 2026.
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Cell C’s first results as a listed company reveal a cleaner balance sheet but a business still searching for momentum.
While its other segments have showed a relatively muted performance, Cell C’s MVNO business is thriving.
South Africa will push ahead with breaking up Eskom and creating a standalone company to run the transmission grid.
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Music streamer services in South Africa have kept their prices relatively stable over the last two years.
South Africa regards nuclear power as a critical part of its baseload energy mix.
OpenAI has launched GPT-5, the latest instalment of a technology that has helped transform global business and culture.
Bank fees, a lack of features and low consumer awareness have slowed uptake of the PayShap rapid payments platform.
Vodacom has said it has placed South Africa’s first “native” voice call on 5G – known as Voice over New Radio, or VoNR.
Good growth at online fashion retailer Bash has helped lift the contribution to The Foschini Group’s Africa sales to 7%.
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Apple has reportedly renewed discussions with OpenAI about introducing its technologies into the iPhone later this year.
China will send a robotic spacecraft in the coming days on a round trip to the moon’s far side.
The Pura 70 series Huawei unveiled last week sports the Kirin 9010 processor, TechInsights found in a teardown.
Microsoft beat estimates for third-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, driven by gains from adoption of AI.
The world’s richest countries are courting South Africa as a model of how to transition to a more climate-friendly future from a dependency on coal. It’s a pity about the politics, then.
Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space telescope ever built and a complex piece of mechanical origami that has pushed the limits of human engineering.
