MTN South Africa CEO Ferdi Moolman MTN has been putting 90 million prepaid Sim cards into the South African market every year, and estimates the industry as a whole is pushing between 200 million and 300 million a year into a country of about 65 million people, adults and children. The astonishing figures came from…
Oil prices fell more than 3% on Tuesday as the U.S. pivots to economic sanctions rather than military strikes to pressure Iran. Brent futures, the international benchmark, dropped 3.9% to close at $88.58 per barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude lost 3.1% to settle at $82.36 a barrel. Prices have fallen more than 5% this…
Nithen Naidoo dropped by the ITWeb studio for a conversation beyond beyond the potential of AI, how Snode uses AI in a way that helps organisations reduce complexity, focus on the risks that matter most and strengthen resilience across their digital environments. #snode Snode Technologies was using AI long before it became the industry’s favourite…
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, tangled with Fox News host Jesse Watters in an interview Monday, repeatedly pivoting from “culture war” questions to refocus on affordability in his state. “You want to bring up all this culture war,” El-Sayed told Watters during the 25-minute interview. “I’m not here to fight a…
MTN Group is targeting 150MW of capacity in a first phase spanning South Africa and Nigeria, group CEO Ralph Mupita told a media roundtable on Tuesday. The group will hold only a minority stake in the UAE-backed data-centre venture behind it, he said. The comments put hard numbers to a deal MTN described only in…
Flight tracking data confirms an American military aircraft travelled to Russia from the US via Latvia on Tuesday.
NASA is preparing to launch its next flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, embarking on a mission to investigate the fundamental mysteries of dark energy, dark matter, cosmic gravity, and alien worlds. Read: Samsung teases another Galaxy event on August 27 The $4-billion (R64-billion) project is scheduled to launch on Sunday aboard a…
United Airlines is expanding to 10 new international destinations, including Okinawa, Japan, and Ibiza, Spain. Scott Kirby, the airline’s CEO, joins “CBS Mornings” with more.
The Lancet HIV Commission on Ageing‘s 2026 report highlights how profoundly the global HIV epidemic is changing. In 2025, an estimated 11.5 million (29%) people living with HIV were aged 50 years and older. This is projected to increase to 20.2 million by 2040. That would account for more than half (51%) of all people…
Researchers identify AI monitoring, platform regulation, demand reduction and community coordination as key weapons against online wildlife trafficking. (Image created via Gemini) Social media platforms − including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube − are fuelling a rapidly-expanding illegal wildlife trade that is becoming increasingly difficult to detect and police. A review conducted by a team…
