Industry body says the fiscus-first model is starving the very sector South Africa depends on for connectivity.
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Prosus is selling a 5% Delivery Hero stake to Aspex Management to fulfil European Commission commitments.
The goodwill makes Vodacom’s balance sheet vulnerable to impairment if Maziv fails to deliver expected growth.
Egypt and Safaricom drove a 22.9% jump in headline earnings as the South African business posted only modest growth.
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Standard Bank Group spending on tech rose 8.7% in 2025 while it extended the life of its South African core banking system.
Raids and court convictions have occurred in the Western Cape as MultiChoice targets illegal streaming operations.
Vodacom says it has achieved 5G upload speeds above 250Mbit/s, though the technology is not yet being deployed commercially.
A UCT-led team has used South Africa’s MeerKAT and Salt to reveal a vast hidden supercluster lurking behind the Milky Way.
Vast stretches of rural Africa remain unconnected – and closing the gap demands deep specialist skills.
Canal+ shares plunged 23.5% after MultiChoice subscriber losses and a grim revenue outlook rattled investors.
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Mark Zuckerberg sees future social feeds filled with AI content and AI friends. And fuelling this synthetic future will be AI ads.
Apple is hitting back hard at the European Union, saying its demands are unreasonable and hamper innovation.
Mark Zuckerberg’s deal with Anduril for military hardware offers a lifeline to Meta’s ailing Reality Labs business.
Temu parent PDD Holdings is taking strain at home while its international business has been hit by global trade uncertainty.
What if AI represents a formidable bottleneck in the development of all civilisations, one that thwarts their long-term survival?
Regulators who want to get a grip on an emerging generation of artificially intelligent killing machines may not have much time left to do so, governments were warned on Monday.
