Malatsi backs consumer sentiment on data expiry debate

Malatsi backs consumer sentiment on data expiry debate

ICASA regulations on data expiry seek to help reduce the cost to communicate in SA. Communications minister Solly Malatsi has described the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (ICASA’s) regulatory moves on mobile data expiry as a useful intervention to bring down the cost to communicate. However, he believes the resultant legal deliberations are likely…

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Wits announces quantum communications breakthrough

Wits announces quantum communications breakthrough

Lead author Tatjana Kleine creates quantum topologies in the laboratory Physicists at Wits University have shown that information carried on light can survive a trip through turbulent air completely intact, even when the light itself arrives so badly distorted that it is unrecognisable. That matters because of what it could eventually make possible — so-called…

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Ozow, FNB and RMB plug into API payments

Ozow, FNB and RMB plug into API payments

Ozow said the API-based approach removes the need for customers to share banking credentials or complete manual EFT processes. South African fintech company Ozow has partnered with First National Bank (FNB) and Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) to launch a payment API designed to improve account-to-account payments by replacing traditional electronic fund transfer (EFT) processes with direct…

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Grow with Huawei eKit: Huawei launches 4+10+N Intelligence Solutions to power SA’s SMEs

Grow with Huawei eKit: Huawei launches 4+10+N Intelligence Solutions to power SA’s SMEs

Huawei hosted the Huawei eKit Forum as a breakaway session at Huawei South Africa Connect 2026, bringing distribution partners together under the theme “Grow with Huawei eKit: Distribution Solutions & Partner Program”. The forum introduced the HUAWEI eKit 4+10+N SME Intelligence Solutions, an extensive portfolio of over 400 products built for South Africa’s SME market,…

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Driving SA’s transport into the intelligent era: Huawei launches 12 solutions across rail, road, ports, aviation

Driving SA’s transport into the intelligent era: Huawei launches 12 solutions across rail, road, ports, aviation

Huawei hosted customers and partners at the Smart Transportation Summit, part of Huawei South Africa Connect 2026, to discuss how intelligent technologies can help improve the safety and efficiency of South Africa’s transport network. Held under the theme Driving Mobility and Logistics into the Intelligent World, the summit saw Huawei launch 12 solutions across four…

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The retailer that is about to become your bank

The retailer that is about to become your bank

Every few years, something arrives to threaten Capitec. It never does. Standard Bank tried. FNB tried. Discovery Bank attracted 2.5 million clients. GoTyme, the digital bank that rebranded from TymeBank in April, has signed up more than 12 million customers faster than almost anyone expected. None has materially altered Capitec’s trajectory. Capitec carries a JSE…

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Why identity has become a board-level growth issue

Why identity has become a board-level growth issue

We rarely think of identity as infrastructure. It sits in the compliance budget, gets reviewed at audit time and seldom makes the growth agenda. But identity underpins every digital interaction, customer relationship and product decision. In most enterprises, that foundation was never designed. “Most boards look at identity spend and see a compliance line item….

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