Solly Malatsi’s Post Office gamble

Solly Malatsi’s Post Office gamble

Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi has denied claims by business rescue practitioners (BRPs) for the South African Post Office that his refusal to allow them to sell assets or seek external funding has hamstrung the business rescue process. Speaking in an episode of the TechCentral Show to be published in…

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Concern as SA regresses on R&D spend

Concern as SA regresses on R&D spend

South Africa’s R&D investment remains stagnant at 0.61% of GDP. (Image source: 123RF) Even with the National Development Plan targets firmly in sight, South Africa looks unlikely to reach its target of 1.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) expenditure on research and development (R&D) by 2030. This, as the latest datasets on the state of…

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Setback for South Africa’s electricity market reform

Setback for South Africa’s electricity market reform

The launch of South Africa’s wholesale electricity market has been pushed back from 1 April to the third quarter of 2026, the National Transmission Company South Africa (NTCSA) said on Thursday. The NTCSA said “additional work” is required to ensure that all market, operational and regulatory requirements are in place, but in a statement on…

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UCT to host continent’s largest university AI cluster

UCT to host continent’s largest university AI cluster

Through the African Compute Initiative, researchers can tackle a wide range of AI and data-intensive projects. The University of Cape Town (UCT) is set to establish Africa’s largest GPU intensive compute cluster dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) research, marking a shift in the continent’s digital research capabilities, it says. The African Compute Initiative (ACI) forms…

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Afreximbank to Hold Its 33rd Annual Meetings in El Alamein, Egypt, From 21-24 June 2026

Afreximbank to Hold Its 33rd Annual Meetings in El Alamein, Egypt, From 21-24 June 2026

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced that it will hold its 33rd Annual Meetings (AAM2026) at El Alamein in Egypt, from 21 to 24 June 2026. Against the backdrop of deepening geopolitical re-alignment and conflicts, Afreximbank will hold its 33rd Annual Meetings under the theme “Intra-African Trade and Industrialisation: Pathway to Economic Sovereignty”, underscoring the…

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Epstein victims sue Trump administration, Google

Epstein victims sue Trump administration, Google

A tablet screen displays a portrait of Jeffrey Epstein beside the U.S. Department of Justice website page titled Epstein Library, Feb. 11, 2026. Veronique Tournier | Afp | Getty Images A victim of notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein filed a class action lawsuit Thursday on behalf of herself and other survivors against the Trump administration…

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