Tether remains the dominant stablecoin in South Africa. (Image created by GenAI) Authorised financial services provider BlockTower’s rand-backed stablecoin ZARU has been listed on Luno Global, in what it says is the first institutional-grade rand stablecoin on a regulated crypto exchange. The listing gives the rand an on-chain secondary market on Luno’s exchange. ZARU, which…
More than 20,000 people were ordered to leave their homes overnight in western Canada as a fast-moving wildfire grew rapidly and raced toward towns along British Columbia’s Okanagan Lake, destroying homes in its path. The entire community of Summerland, home to about 12,000 people, was ordered evacuated, along with about 8,000 people in and around…
Becoming an AWS Well-Architected Partner is a series of steps to prove your competency in delivering Well-Architected Reviews to clients. But before you are approved to run the review, you reach a step where you are required to run one on your own business. We went into ours expecting a box-ticking exercise and came out…
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Masrour Barzani denies any ‘pressure’ to enter the Iran war despite over 1,000 attacks. Published On 8 Aug 20268 Aug 2026 Masrour Barzani, the prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, says the semi-autonomous Kurdish region does not want to become involved in the ongoing…
Outgoing Nedbank COO Mfundo Nkuhlu. Outgoing Nedbank chief operating officer (COO) Mfundo Nkuhlu says the bank’s years-long investment in modernising its technology infrastructure has positioned it to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), as digital capabilities become central to the future of banking. Speaking to ITWeb following the announcement of his retirement after more than two decades…
This picture shows ships sailing near the Strait of Hormuz off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates at Khor Fakkan on July 13, 2026. AFP | Getty Images Abu Dhabi’s National Oil Company (ADNOC) said one of its vessels was targeted by a missile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz in the early…
Why good African businesses and projects can struggle to cross the funding redline Africa has never suffered from a shortage of ideas. It suffers from a shortage of capital willing to believe in those ideas. Across the continent, entrepreneurs are building businesses, engineers are designing infrastructure, farmers are developing agricultural value chains, innovators are creating…
ByteDance is training an AI model with as many as 10 trillion parameters that could be close to the size of Anthropic’s cutting-edge Mythos system, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. With 10 trillion parameters, the model would be more than three times the size of Chinese start-up…
A rocket collides with the moon, restaurants grapple with salmonella, and the CDC finally has a permanent leader.
Cyber security experts engaged with ITWeb TV at the ITWeb Security Summit 2026, discussing Africa’s evolving threats, innovations, resilience and the future. (Image source: 123RF) The cyber security ecosystem is remarkably diverse. At the 2026 ITWeb Security Summit, ITWeb TV interviewed a range of experts – including a cyber security comedian – to shed light…
