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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WhatsApp is introducing a range of upgrades designed to fight criminal scammers and other forms of fraud on the platform.
OpenAI has released two open-weight language models optimised to run on laptops.
Mobile data and fibre services are booming at Telkom, though its IT services business, BCX, is struggling.
Ghana has demanded that the local unit of MultiChoice Group to reduce subscription fees by 30% by 7 August.
Capitec is muscling in on the remittance market through a partnership with the fintech Mama Money.
Short-term resilience to tariff shocks may not hold up in the long term as other nations secure trade deals with the US.
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Changpeng Zhao should serve 36 months in prison after pleading guilty to violating money laundering laws, prosecutors said.
X is launching a TV app, pushing deeper into video and entertainment content as it takes on the likes of Google’s YouTube.
Huawei has unveiled a new software brand for intelligent driving, marking its latest push to become a major player in EVs.
Elon Musk has dramatically escalated his battle over a court order to remove video posts of a bishop being stabbed.
Investors ought to be clamouring over GlobalFoundries’ $1-billion initial public offering. Except the company is struggling to make money in a chip boom.
Positive environmental news is rare. All the more reason to cheer an effort that might see wealthy nations help South Africa curb its coal addiction.
