Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
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Stable electricity supply and an enabling macroeconomic environment have laid the groundwork for the sector’s continued growth in 2026.
South Africa’s fibre market is entering an “Open Access 2.0” era shaped by scale, behaviour and enforcement.
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing their profits stem from his early funding and support.
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Competition for the best developer talent in South Africa is intense. Yet there has been a decrease in the past year in the number of developers actively looking to move jobs.
Icasa has imposed new universal service obligations on mobile broadband operator Rain after it was awarded access to spectrum in the coveted 1.8GHz band.
It’s still in early development, but Google has released a version of its Chrome OS operating system, called Flex, that allows users to install the software on PCs and Macs.
Renewable energy has the potential to accelerate growth and set South Africa on a course towards a low-carbon economy, energy minister Gwede Mantashe has said.
Regulator Zadna has short-listed five bidders to provide registry services for .co.za, .net.za and org.za second-level domains.
Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni on Tuesday repeated a claim that South Africa has switched off analogue broadcasting in five of the nine provinces. But this isn’t strictly true.
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US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said new rules are coming soon that will put more limits on US companies supplying China’s telecommunications leader Huawei Technologies.
United Nations human rights experts have called for an investigation into allegations that the Saudi Arabian crown prince was involved in the hacking of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos’s phone.
The mobile phone of Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos was hacked after receiving a WhatsApp message from the account of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, it has been claimed.
Tesla’s market value briefly topped $100-billion for the first time, a threshold that will trigger a huge payout for Elon Musk if he can sustain the feat for months.
An executive director of JSE-listed technology company Pinnacle Holdings has been arrested for allegedly attempting to bribe a top manager of the South African Police Service, it has emerged. Takalani Tshivhase appeared in the Pretoria specialised commercial crimes court on a charge of corruption, according to a police spokesman
MultiChoice’s open letter to Yunus Carrim, in which it criticised government’s policy on the use of encryption in free-to-air digital terrestrial television, was “not anti-government” and was written because the pay-TV broadcaster, which owns M-Net and DStv, has
