ZARC’s 1.5 million registrations mark the maturation of South Africa’s domain space. The ZA Registry Consortium (ZARC) has reached 1.5 million registrations across South Africa’s commercial .ZA second-level domains, marking a significant point in the development of the country’s internet ecosystem, it says. The milestone covers the .co.za, .org.za, .net.za and .web.za namespaces and makes…
The Competition Commission has warned makers of smartphones, appliances and other electronics that blocking independent repairers, including through software that stops replacement parts from working until the manufacturer activates them, could fall foul of the Competition Act. The warning is contained in the commission’s final Guidelines on Repair, Service and Maintenance Aftermarkets, announced on Monday….
Gqeberha-based Cape Recife High School won Samsung’s 2026 Solve for Tomorrow challenge. Special education needs school Cape Recife High School in Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) is overall winner of this year’s Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition. The finale was hosted in Pretoria on Friday, following prototype presentations the previous day. Cape Recife High School emerged…
Mission Mobile co-founder and CEO Timothy Strike Most of the up to R500-million that investment group DNI has committed to Mission Mobile, a Johannesburg start-up that sells smartphones on repayment terms through mobile operators’ stores, is debt, co-founder and CEO Timothy Strike told TechCentral. The package is “majority debt”, with DNI also taking an equity…
Service providers are sought for the supply of cloud services for the South African School Administration and Management System. (Image source: iStock) It’s another quiet week on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, requiring the ICT industry to turn to local government, as a wide range of metro, district and local municipalities come to the party with…
Vodacom Group CIO Mohamed Sami Mohamed Sami, group CIO at Vodacom, says autonomous AI agents that resolve customer problems without handing them to a human are the next big shift in customer experience – and that it is closer than many think. Speaking on TechCentral’s Meet the CIO podcast series, which is brought to our…
USAASA has finalised its revised Universal Service and Access Fund. (Image source: iStock) The Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA) has a new, ministerial-approved Universal Service and Access Fund (USAF) manual. This follows last November’s faux pas that saw the agency swiftly withdrawthe manual after it was released for public comment without…
Luno’s Marius Reitz Luno has opened a new front against draft cross-border crypto rules from national treasury and the South African Reserve Bank, arguing that they treat stablecoin payments inconsistently with South Africa’s international commitments. Under the draft, Luno says, all payments in stablecoins – crypto tokens pegged to a currency, usually the US dollar…
The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) has invested R14m in TokaBio to strengthen South Africa’s capacity to detect and respond to livestock diseases that threaten agricultural production and commodity exports. The investment supports TokaBio’s Molecular Rapid Response and Bio-surveillance Programme, which focuses on diseases including Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Avian Influenza. TokaBio has established a 4IR-driven mobile…
Graeme Millar, Managing Director, SevenC. When entrepreneurs start a business, they usually think about customers, sales, cashflow and growth, not about governance. Governance and compliance can easily feel like something you only need to prioritise down the line, once the business grows. But retrofitting governance is a bit like trying to strengthen a house’s foundations…
