From digital IDs to AI-powered crime fighting, here are the key tech takeaways from Sona 2026.
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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.
Cell C’s first results as a listed company reveal a cleaner balance sheet but a business still searching for momentum.
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Bytes UK, a subsidiary of JSE-listed technology group Altron, has secured a contract with the UK’s National Health Service worth £150m (R2.5bn). The £30m/year, five-year deal saw Bytes UK take the tender in
Niel Schoeman is stepping down as CEO of fibre-to-the-home provider Vumatel with immediate effect. He’s not leaving the company, however, and will take on the role of executive chairman. In a
Former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas, who was controversially fired from the position by former President Jacob Zuma, will join MTN Group as a nonexecutive director on 1 June, the Johannesburg-headquartered
Twitter has advised users to change their passwords after the company found a bug in its systems that exposed passwords in plain text internally. The company said it removed the non-encrypted passwords
With communications regulator Icasa set to hold public hearings into the subscription television market in South Africa, DStv parent MultiChoice has said a lack of new competition in the direct-to-home satellite
Eskom doesn’t expect current shortages of coal to force a return to rolling blackouts as it sources extra stocks and moves around existing supplies of the fuel. The state-owned company supplies almost
