Women’s groups, tech watchdogs and progressive activists are calling on Google and Apple to remove the apps.
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Fewer learners studying mathematics at school level threatens South Africa’s economic competitiveness.
Buy now, pay later gives customers flexibility, but light regulatory oversight may ensure safe, responsible financial access.
Investment is pouring into renewable energy, but grid expansion will determine whether momentum can be sustained.
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The launch of the Xpress courier service shows how businesses are adopting EVs at an increasingly fast pace.
South Africa’s leading telecoms operators collectively spent R27-billion on network infrastructure in the last year.
Human line judges dressed in crisp striped shirts and white bottoms will be absent from Wimbledon this year.
The decision whether to award Elon Musk’s Starlink an operating licence in South Africa will ultimately rest with Icasa.
IBM plans to have a practical quantum computer by 2029, and has laid out the detailed steps it will take to get there.
Stadio has become the first educational institution to launch an MVNO in South Africa.
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Apple developers will be able to distribute apps to EU users directly from their websites in the coming months.
Meta Platforms has sued one of its former vice presidents for what it called a “stunning” betrayal.
Bitcoin miner earnings hit all-time highs last week as the price for the cryptocurrency continues to trade around record levels.
Elon Musk said xAI will open-source its ChatGPT challenger Grok this week, days after he sued rival OpenAI.
Shifting geopolitics and a sharp round of cost cutting have put Nokia firmly back in the global 5G roll-out race just a year after CEO Pekka Lundmark took the reins at the Finnish company.
Pandemics don’t cause riots. They do, though, create the perfect conditions for turmoil in fragile societies that are already powder kegs of sky-high unemployment, and where Covid-19 has inevitably hit the poor hardest.
