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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Andile Ngcaba has argued the tech sector could be the largest employer in the economy.
Takealot Group is ramping up on-demand delivery by repurposing its Mr D takeaway food platform.
Elon Musk is a no-holds-barred kind of tech billionaire. So, too, are his new AI companions.
The two sides are now inching towards what could be a series of agreements, if not a single grand deal.
Netflix has used generative AI to produce visual effects that appeared for the first time on screen in one of its original series.
MultiChoice and its French suitor, Canal+, have told competition regulators that they cannot compete effectively without scale.
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Swift is planning a new platform to connect CBDCs now in development to the existing finance system.
Nigeria is seeking an international arrest warrant for the company’s regional manager for Africa.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that bans children aged under 14 from social media platforms.
The US has neither the workforce capability nor the regulatory regime to keep up in the semiconductor race.
Herd immunity is no longer a discussion the world – or South Africa – should be having. We should start to avoid using that term in the context of Sars-CoV-2, because it’s unlikely to materialise in our lifetimes. By Shabir A Madhi.
The future is not just more and nicer suburbs, better pay and new forms of social media. All those are likely to happen, but they won’t be the biggest changes.
