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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The council of communications regulator Icasa has agreed that the broadcasting and telecommunications regulator will investigate a complaint lodged by the Democratic Alliance against MultiChoice about payments to
The Public Investment Corp, which invests pension money on behalf of government workers, has acquired a 25% stake in new South African stock exchange ZAR X for an undisclosed sum. The PIC, which has assets
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is next in line to lead the country, said the government currently can’t afford to build new nuclear power reactors. “We have to look at where the economy is – we have excess power and
The first direct submarine cable link between Africa and South Africa is nearing completion, the company backing its construction said on Thursday. The “wet-plant” installation of the South Atlantic Cable System is progressing
Mining cryptocurrencies is far too energy intensive and is consuming as much electricity as a G-20 economy, International Monetary Fund MD Christine Lagarde said. “The bitcoin mining, which is this accelerated and augmented
In a damning judgment, a full bench of the high court, headed by judge Elias Matojane, has ruled against Brian Molefe, Eskom and the minister of public enterprises in a case brought by the Economic Freedom Fighters, the


























