Cell C has significantly cut the offer price for its upcoming listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), reducing its expected market capitalization by hundreds of millions of Rands. Read: Discovery Bank partners with Luno in SA for crypto trading In an update to investors on Friday, Blu Label Unlimited Group, Cell C’s largest shareholder,…
Dr Thulani Dlamini, CEO of the CSIR. At an exclusive roundtable with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), CEO Dr Thulani Dlamini shared updates on several technologies designed to move South African science into the marketplace. “Our role is to develop technologies that make a tangible difference,” said Dlamini. “Science must serve the…
A Telkom communications tower in Pretoria Telkom released its interim results for the six-month period ending 30 September 2025 on Tuesday. On the surface, the headline number is exceptionally strong: the group’s headline earnings per share from continuing operations reached 305.6 cents, while group revenue rose to R22.1-billion. For a company that has spent years…
The Competition Commission has approved the acquisition of digital financial services bank Bank Zero by Lesaka Technologies for a total transaction value of R1.1 billion. Read: Discovery Bank partners with Luno in SA for crypto trading The commission announced on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, that it has recommended the deal be allowed to proceed without…
Identity is one of the most under-secured and over-exploited layers in cyber security. Identity has been the backbone of enterprise IT for more than 25 years, yet it remains one of the most under-secured and over-exploited layers in cyber security. While networks, endpoints and cloud security have gone through cycles of reinvention, the identity layer…
Bubble? What bubble? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he does not see an AI bubble, but rather a tipping point. In his view, the kind of computing his company specialises in will come to suffuse everything from writing code to running legions of robots in the everyday world, stoking…
Vodacom Group has announced a “pivotal” agreement with Elon Musk’s Starlink to significantly expand internet access across Africa, targeting businesses and accelerating rural network coverage. Read: Discovery Bank partners with Luno in SA for crypto trading The core of the partnership involves integrating Starlink’s satellite backhaul into Vodacom’s existing mobile network. This strategic integration is…
ITWeb contributor Phillip de Wet. Take it from someone who has tried (and often failed) to sell various newspapers and magazines: South Africa doesn’t have enough readers. Depending on how you slice the data, something like a tenth of the population is illiterate by a formal definition. Functional literacy is a far bigger problem –…
Anchored in the 30-year Altron-UKG partnership, this timely webinar – led by Riyaat Phillips, senior manager for pre-sales in workforce management at Altron Digital Business, and John Rowzee, principal solution consultant, Europe, the Middle East and Africa at UKG – boiled workforce management down to three moves that turn complexity into impact: Agile scheduling: converting…
Perplexity is expanding its presence in the mobile space with the launch of its AI-powered browser, Comet, now available for download on Android. The new app brings the core features of its desktop counterpart, establishing Comet as one of the first major AI-centric browsers available on a mobile platform. Read: Discovery Bank partners with Luno…
