South Africa’s economic growth slowed less than expected in the fourth quarter as domestic fixed investment slumped.

The proliferation of digital financial service providers may see a more streamlined Fica process in future, though this may give rise to privacy concerns.

A four-legged robot named the Mini Cheetah is now able to do backflips, thanks to researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Open-access fibre telecommunications specialist Dark Fibre Africa has made its first move outside South Africa.

JSE-listed technology group Altron plans to move out of its staid corporate offices in Parktown to a new, 29 000sq m campus in Woodmead, north of Johannesburg, being developed by Growthpoint Properties.

Liquid Telecom is giving serious thought to leveraging its spectrum asset in the 3.5GHz band, which happens to be ideally suited to the roll-out of next-generation 5G mobile broadband technology.