KZN learners win Vodacom Eco-Warriors competition

KZN learners win Vodacom Eco-Warriors competition

Learners from St John Paul II Secondary School won Vodacom SA’s 2026 Eco-Warriors Sustainability Competition. (Image supplied) Learners from St John Paul II Secondary School in Elandskop, KwaZulu-Natal, have won Vodacom South Africa’s 2026 Eco-Warriors Sustainability Competition. Vodacom South Africa launched the competition in October 2025 to encourage learners from grades nine to 11 at…

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Flagship broadband programme in South Africa stalled

Flagship broadband programme in South Africa stalled

Communications department director-general Nonkqubela Jordan-Dyani Government’s flagship broadband programme, SA Connect, was effectively frozen for most of the past financial year after funding the communications department had been counting on failed to arrive on time – with the in-year allocation collapsing from an expected R1.1-billion to just R116-million. Communications & digital technologies director-general Nonkqubela Jordan-Dyani…

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Fox to acquire Roku in blockbuster  billion streaming pivot

Fox to acquire Roku in blockbuster $22 billion streaming pivot

Fox Corp is placing a massive bet on the future of cord-cutting, announcing a cash-and-stock deal to purchase streaming pioneer Roku for approximately $22 billion. The blockbuster acquisition aims to combine Fox’s premier live sports and news programming with Roku’s hardware and software footprint, accelerating Fox’s transition into the digital-first era. Read: Meta rolls out…

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Microsoft SA secures digital talent for govt

Microsoft SA secures digital talent for govt

Microsoft drives employment-led digital upskilling for SA’s public sector departments. Sixty-four digitally-trained graduates have been placed into long-term employment roles across 11 government departments. This, as part of Microsoft South Africa’s equity equivalent investment programme (EEIP), says the software giant. EEIPs were created for multinationals whose global practices or policies prevent them from complying with…

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your road map to kill cloud waste

your road map to kill cloud waste

Driven by an early industry rush to prioritise agility over efficiency, massive cloud infrastructure scale has left behind a costly legacy of financial fragility. Addressing this widespread corporate vulnerability, international software development and cloud specialist BBD has announced the publication of its latest comprehensive white paper, Architecting Cloud Value: A FinOps Approach to Driving Bottom-Line…

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