Vodacom invests R500 million to improve digital inclusion in the Western Cape. Mobile telephony group Vodacom says it will spend more than R500 million in network infrastructure and digital inclusion in the Western Cape this financial year. In a statement, the JSE-listed group says it will focus on network expansion, modernisation and upgrades, energy-resilience projects…
The launch of the Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA) is a welcome step towards strengthening the continent’s voice in how its economies are assessed. Its mandate to draw on African data, expertise and economic realities deserves support. Credit ratings have consequences far beyond financial markets. They influence investors’ decisions, access to borrowing and the interest…
One of the seven men named in the lawsuit filed by a former Cornell University student who alleges that she was sexually assaulted at an on-campus fraternity house has filed a petition to block New York Attorney General Letitia James’ appointment as special prosecutor in the case. The attorney for Gillio Lopes, who has denied…
Seacom CEO Alpheus Mangale Seacom’s board has placed CEO Alpheus Mangale on special leave and appointed an independent third party to investigate allegations it received about how the company was being run, chairman Pieter Uys told TechCentral on Wednesday. Chief financial officer Charl Slabbert is standing in as interim CEO of the subsea and terrestrial…
Japanese officials have raided the country’s biggest beer makers over allegations they worked together to raise the price of their beverages. Asahi, Sapporo, Kirin and Suntory Spirits confirmed to the BBC that their premises had been searched by the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), adding that they would fully cooperate with the regulator. The four…
Lawyers present hallucinated cases, a judge had ChatGPT reconcile car payments and another tested it on dubious citations, while experts say judges must stay accountable.
The FBI fears the alleged Chinese agent arrested at LAX on Sunday may try to flee the country if released after her court hearing on Wednesday, law enforcement sources told CBS News. Investigators claim California realtor Wanying Zhang owned a business in China, regularly has money deposited in a Chinese bank account and has parents,…
Former Dimension Data Group CEO Jason Goodall Jason Goodall, the former group CEO of Dimension Data and NTT Ltd, has admitted that he secretly took part on the buying side of the 2019 sale of Dimension Data’s Johannesburg head office while advising NTT on the selling side. He has agreed to pay NTT about R208.6-million…
World Cotton Day should measure more than output. It should ask how much manufacturing, employment and African-owned value the continent creates from every bale it grows. A cotton boll is light enough to sit in the palm of a hand. The economy wrapped around it is not. Before cotton becomes a shirt, a uniform, a…
At the 2026 International Astronautical Congress in Turkiye, SpaceX unveiled a new visualisation of its plan to put a million satellites in space to power AI data centres. Published On 7 Oct 20267 Oct 2026 Share Inside SpaceX’s new look for AI data centres in orbit on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on…
