X owner Elon Musk. Benoit Tessier/Reuters A coalition of women’s groups, tech watchdogs and progressive activists is calling on Google and Apple to remove the social media site X and its related chatbot, Grok, from their app stores. In open letters published on Wednesday, the coalition accused the Elon Musk-owned apps of generating illegal content…
EV adoption in Africa could accelerate before 2040, but high financing costs remain the main barrier to uptake. Electric vehicles (EVs) could become economically competitive across large parts of Africa well before 2040, driven by falling technology costs and the rise of solar-powered, off-grid charging infrastructure. This is according to new research led by research…
The decline in the number of South African learners taking and passing pure mathematics – as opposed to the more rudimentary maths literacy – at high school level is going to have profound negative consequences for the economy, experts have warned. This is because digital skills and computational thinking are increasingly becoming crucial components of…
Dr Boloka, founder and CEO of OS Lab. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) Former Film and Publication Board (FPB) CEO Dr Mashilo Boloka has ventured into fighting digital and online threats by establishing Online Safety Lab (OS Lab) – a trust safety start-up. The start-up, which started operating in 2025, seeks to help organisations across Africa…
Sola Group’s Springbok solar farm South Africa’s renewable energy sector is poised for a busy year, with multiple projects set to reach commercialisation or break ground as market confidence remains generally upbeat. According to industry body the South African Photovoltaic Industry Association, the country’s renewable energy sector is heading in the right direction. “The policy…
OpenAI recently made its foray into the health and wellness sector with the launch of ChatGPT Health, a special health tab that allows users to input EMR data, Apple Health metrics, and MyFitnessPal logs. Giving rise to a new era of personalisation, as consumers can now use an AI tool to synthesise decades of medical…
Christo Greeff, Delivery Lead: App Modernisation, Mint Group. Companies are still relying on legacy systems that were never designed for the pace and scale of today’s market. They work, but they’re not agile enough and they’re expensive to maintain and slow to adapt. Companies sitting on legacy may be reluctant to change due to sunk…
Ugandan authorities cut internet access and limited mobile services across the country on Tuesday, two days before an election in which President Yoweri Museveni will stand for a contentious seventh term after four decades in power. The Uganda Communications Commission ordered mobile service providers to shut down public internet connections from 6pm (5pm SAST) on…
Mohammed Amin, senior VP for the region at Dell Technologies. Businesses in the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, Turkey and Africa (CEEMETA) region are not just experimenting with AI; they’re busy scaling the technology at pace, says Mohammed Amin, senior VP for the region at Dell Technologies, who emphasises AI-driven speed as the new benchmark in…
The prospect of Eskom meeting its March 2026 or March 2027 smart meter roll-out targets looks increasingly unlikely. The utility has only installed and uploaded 75 736 smart meters on feeders affected by load reduction of its target of 577 347 for March 2026, amounting to just 13.1% of the total. The smart meters are meant to…
