DJ Zinhle’s Bestie Connect is a prepaid mobile network on MTN, aimed squarely at her followers.
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Icasa must rule out private companies storing fingerprints and let operators compete to stop fraud.
MTN won or shared 10 of 16 Opensignal awards to keep its best-network title, though Vodacom leads on 5G speed.
Democrats’ midterm election sweep have sent shares in US tech giants soaring.
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South Africa could dramatically boost economic growth if the country fixed problems at Eskom and Transnet, the IMF said.
South Africa’s biggest fibre telecommunications operator, Vumatel, now passes more than two million homes.
MTN Group is seeking as many as three more strategic investors in addition to Mastercard for its fintech unit.
The sale of electric vehicles in South Africa more than doubled year on year in the second quarter, albeit off a low base.
The latest in vehicle technologies is making our cars prone to theft and malicious attack by criminals.
Capitec and Discovery Bank have become the latest to offer access to PayShap, BankservAfrica’s rapid payments platform.
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As humanity marks the 20th anniversary of continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit, a leading space expert has described the International Space Station as an invaluable scientific resource.
A US senate hearing to reform an Internet law and hold tech companies accountable for how they moderate content quickly turned into a political scuffle.
The US National Security Agency is rebuffing efforts by a leading congressional critic to determine whether it is continuing to place so-called back doors into commercial technology products.
Sony is seeing “very considerable” demand for its PlayStation 5 console via pre-orders, its gaming chief said, as the technology firm targets pole position in the race to tap the growth of gaming globally.
Young black South Africans with entrepreneurial ambitions may well find that studying computer programming or software developing provides the springboard they need to grab the eye of a venture capital funder. With an inherent bias towards
MTN is below par when it comes to customer satisfaction, while Telkom’s mobile arm is a leader among mobile operators, new research purports to show. The South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi) surveyed more than

































