South Africa is unlikely to adopt policies needed to drive growth, investment and job creation for at least several years because of infighting in the governing ANC, according to one of the country’s leading research institutions. The party
In all the recent bombshell reports about the Kaspersky anti-virus software, it’s easy to focus on the Russian threat and miss the general context: every government that employs hackers tries to weaponise antivirus software. Government
It’s Friday (the 13th) and that means it’s time to talk tech. In this week’s episode of TalkCentral, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the imminent launch of South Africa’s first (trial) 5G network
The high court in Pretoria on Friday declared all the City of Tshwane’s agreements with PEU Capital Partners and its implementing agent TUMS constitutionally invalid. The court further ordered that R950m
The supreme court of appeal opened the way for the reinstatement of bribery and corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma by upholding a lower court’s ruling that a decision by prosecutors to drop them
The CEO of Samsung Electronics is stepping down in a surprise resignation after decades at the company, saying it needed new leadership following a bribery scandal that led to the imprisonment of its de facto chief. Kwon Oh-hyun, who
The recent devastating storms that affected the eastern side of South Africa have “wreaked havoc” on Telkom’s wholesale arm, Openserve, the company said on Thursday. The storms have led to a significant increase in network-related
Thank you for listening to the TechCentral podcast. In this episode, Duncan McLeod chats to former Altron TMT CEO Craig Venter on what he’s been up to since resigning from Altron in 2015. In the podcast, Venter
It was always going to be tough to get a handle on the initial sales success of the latest iPhone models. But some early signs are not encouraging for Apple. The latest dour data came from US telecommunications operator
In 2016, the National Energy Development Institute’s cleaner mobility programme reported that electric vehicles in South Africa amount to a mere 500 of the roughly seven million cars on our roads. These are bleak