MTN celebrates 80 graduates from the Western Cape who completed its Digital Skills for Digital Jobs programme. (Image source: MTN South Africa’s Facebook page) MTN South Africa says 80 unemployed young people have graduated from its Digital Skills for Digital Jobs (DS4DJ) programme in the Western Cape. The participants earned accredited qualifications in data analytics,…
Eskom recorded a daily energy availability factor (EAF) of 80.24% on 20 July, its best single day since 20 September 2017. The financial year-to-date EAF stands at 66.22%, an improvement of 6.97 percentage points year on year but still short of the 70% Eskom has set as its recovery benchmark. The daily record also owes…
Caesar Tonkin, managing director of Armata. (Image: Supplied) Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating the cyber threat landscape, enabling attackers to automate attacks, exploit vulnerabilities and impersonate trusted individuals, while organisations struggle to keep pace with the security and governance risks associated with the technology. The growing threat posed by AI, coupled with the need for…
Domains.co.za, a South African domain name and hosting provider, has launched self-hosted n8n VPS hosting, which lets businesses automate repetitive tasks, connect applications and systems, and build AI-powered workflows on locally hosted infrastructure. The virtual private server comes with n8n, a widely used open-source automation platform, pre-installed, so developers, digital agencies and growing businesses can…
OpenAI’s latest announcement introduces “fast mode” for GPT-5.6 Sol. ChatGPT developer OpenAI has cut the cost of its GPT-5.6 artificial intelligence (AI) models by as much as 80% and introduced faster processing for its premium model. This, as competition intensifies among AI providers to make enterprise AI more affordable and scalable. The company announced yesterday…
One of GridCars’ now-outdated charging stations in Jansenville in the Eastern Cape GridCars is replacing ageing chargers across its national network with new 120kW units, in a refresh that will bring some of South Africa’s earliest public charging sites up to a standard capable of serving modern electric vehicles. The company said some of the…
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…
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…
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…
One in every five new vehicles sold in South Africa in the first quarter of 2026 was Chinese. It is a statistic that would have seemed fanciful a decade ago, when Chinese cars occupied a dusty corner of the market; within a few years, brands such as Chery and Geely would abandon the country altogether…
