South Africa: Does Anti-Foreigner Hatred Pay? Do Digital Platforms Profit?

Digital platforms are not passive hosts of content. They have become creator economies in which attention is systematically converted into income, and content that provokes… Read more »

South Africa: Hot Listing Summer Returns After a Long Private Market Freeze-Out

The AI companies are coming for public money to fund the next phase of whatever they are building for the future of humanity. Read more »

South Africa: The Airline Industry Is Advocating Tax Cuts to Support Connections

Daily Maverick was a guest of the International Air Transport Association at the annual general meeting in Rio de Janeiro this past weekend, and proceedings quickly turned to calls… Read more »

Southern Africa: 'Democratising' the Environmental Impacts of the Ai Data Beast

Amid the global scramble to build more AI data centres, scholars from the United Nations University are calling for greater public transparency and stricter government oversight to… Read more »

Africa: African Fintech's Winning Formula - Build for the Constraint, Not the Fantasy

At the RMB Think Summit 2026 this week, Michael Jordaan's argument about African fintech success was not the usual glossy conference pitch about apps, disruption and clever code.… Read more »

South Africa: The Bond Reckoning Is About to Meet the Ai Mirage

Something shifted in global markets last week, and not for the better. In both bonds and equities, the mood has darkened. Read more »

South Africa: After the Bell - Banking On Our Trust in an Age of Ai

The discovery by AI models of vulnerabilities in financial systems raises unsettling questions about security and trust in banking - a sector that can also be intensely political. Read more »

South Africa: Minister Malatsi Remains Undeterred in His Ambition to Overhaul ICT Sector

Despite Icasa's pushback, Minister Solly Malatsi aims to advance South Africa's ICT reforms, enhancing satellite service access and addressing ownership regulatory gaps. Read more »

South Africa: Hacktivists Target SA Government Entities in Cybercrime Wave in Response to Xenophobia

South African sovereignty was already under siege from the baseless misinformation that President Trump used to welcome the Voetsekkers, but the latest round of xenophobia has… Read more »

Africa: Bitget Wallet Expands Crypto Card Availability to South Africa

Bitget Wallet, the everyday finance app, today announced the expansion of its crypto card in South Africa. The card lets users spend crypto directly from a self-custodial wallet at… Read more »

South Africa: Crossed Wires -The Software Industry's Andromeda Strain

A new AI model has uncovered thousands of vulnerabilities in global software, raising urgent cybersecurity concerns as tech leaders scramble to prevent potential chaos. Read more »

South Africa: How South Africans Are Using High-Tech to Rewrite the Rules of Wildlife Conservation

South Africans are playing a pioneering role in harnessing drones, artificial intelligence and other digital tech tools to reshape wildlife conservation management -- and to reduce… Read more »

Africa: Beyond It - Why Digital Governance Is Africa's Ultimate Leadership Challenge

Africa's digital future hinges on effective governance and combating cybercrime to foster economic growth, trust, and innovation while addressing significant gaps in digital… Read more »

South Africa: Laptop Blues - SA Can't Hide From the Ram Price Spike

Your next laptop or desktop upgrade is going to be even more expensive than projected, and then costs are still going to climb. What a time for a sensibly priced MacBook. Read more »

South Africa: Million-Dollar Hacker Who Targeted US Businesses From SA Jailed in America, Faces Deportation

Using the aliases 'Ghost' and 'Old Soldier', a swindler from Nigeria stayed in South Africa while targeting Americans through hacking into emails and requesting payments. Now,… Read more »

South Africa: MTN's Iran Headache Just Got Worse As Sanctions, Strikes Tighten Noose

The escalating situation in Iran is a massive drag on any South African business immersed in the global supply chain. But for a multinational network operator like MTN, it is all… Read more »

South Africa: Durban Student Creates App to Map SA's Municipal Service Failures - - and the Fixes

Keyuren Maharaj developed the CityMenderSA app to track infrastructure issues. Read more »

Uganda: MTN Faces the Heat to Restore Internet Access Amid Reports of Human Rights Violations During Ugandan Elections

Ugandans cast their ballots in the presidential elections on Thursday amid reports of 'widespread repression and intimidation' in the east African country. Read more »

Africa: CES 2026 - - a Human-Centric Shift in Tech Amid AI Overload

For a brief moment, the big PC brands turned away from shoving needless AI into everything and remembered that people use computers to do and build things. Read more »

South Africa: The Tech Challenges of 2026

Pricier devices, weirder ways of working and an exploitative data economy - all of these await us. Read more »

South Africa: On Language, Power and the Tlaleng Mofokeng Misjudgment By the Health Professions Council of SA

The council's censure of Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng for her social media posts about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu and propagandist Hillel Neuer is out of step with… Read more »

South Africa: Teraco and Seacom Cable Fault Brings About Digital Load Shedding for Some

Another internet outage in South Africa shows us that the internet, much like an ogre and onion analogy, has layers. And you'd better have redundancy. Read more »

Africa: Why Digital Task Management Is Not an 'Optional Extra' for Your Business

According to Gartner, organisations using paper-based tasks management systems face a 30% higher risk of operational disruption and compliance failure. Read more »

South Africa: Myciti Plots a Swipe-Free Future to Slash Barriers for Cape Town Commuters, Tourists

As the MyCiTi network expands through Cape Town's busiest corridors, the city is trading paper cards and diesel engines for digital payments and electric drives. Read more »

South Africa: Unforced Error - How SA's Diplomatic Blunder Risks Its Digital Future

By bowing to Beijing over Taiwan, South Africa has provoked a country that is the leader in a technology critical to modern life. Read more »