Alan Knott-Craig will step down as CEO of the not-for-profit Wi-Fi company at the end of the year in order to focus his energies on his new business, HeroTel. Current Isizwe chief operating officer Zahir Khan will take the reins from Knott-Craig on 1 January
One technology entrepreneur at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University stands to win R100 000 as part of a programme to encourage diversity in information and communications technology (ICT) in South Africa. NMMU and nonprofit Happimo NPC are
The City of Tshwane’s free Wi-Fi programme hit a milestone of a million unique devices on Wednesday. The free Wi-Fi roll-out programme is part of the metro’s eKaelo strategy to boost engagement and government response with citizens. “It’s just a number, but it’s a
Former First National Bank CEO Michael Jordaan has expressed disappointment at Mxit’s commercial closure. Mxit announced on Friday that it is shutting down its commercial operations and donating all of its intellectual property and technology assets to independent
Eight South African leaders made the Choiseul 100 Africa index, which ranks young Africans who will play a major role in the development of Africa in the near future. The Institut Choiseul identified only eight South African leaders under the age of 40, in a list that includes growing business leaders, successful entrepreneurs
Alan Knott-Craig is nothing if not ambitious. The man behind the Project Isizwe free Wi-Fi project in Pretoria and the former boss of both Mxit and iBurst wants to build what he calls “the Capitec of of telecoms
One person who is notably absent among the investors in Alan Knott-Craig’s new venture, HeroTel, is former FirstRand CEO Paul Harris, who had helped bankroll Knott-Craig’s acquisition
According to technology consultancy BMI-TechKnowledge, the City of Tshwane now has the largest municipal public Wi-Fi network in Africa. What started as a fantasy of making Internet access a basic
In the latest episode of South Africa’s best technology podcast, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Telkom’s new and aggressively priced 1Mbit/s wholesale ADSL service. Also this week, they discuss Alan Knott-Craig’s new venture, HeroTel, and
HeroTel has been working to build out its wide-scale Wi-Fi access business, which is set for launch in early 2016. “Through Snowball and Cloud Connect we already have coverage in the greater Cape Town
