SASSA seeks a cloud-based omni-channel contact centre as a service solution. (Image source: iStock) National Treasury’s eTenders Portal delivers a mixed bag for the ICT industry this week, with a rush of new advertisements favouring those companies that are eager to engage in lower value, quick turnaround quotation requests. A new tender from the South…
The City of Cape Town has begun drafting refined development guidelines for large-scale data centre applications, marking its first formal acknowledgment that current municipal approval frameworks require systemic reform. The policy shift arrives alongside confirmation that a controversial rezoning approval granted in July for a hyperscale data centre precinct at King Air Industria has been…
The City of Cape Town is drafting new development guidelines for large data centre applications, its first public acknowledgement that the approvals process needs changing, and has confirmed that the rezoning it granted in July for a hyperscale precinct at King Air Industria is suspended and cannot be acted on. Separately, Equinix, the US operator…
Civil society groups say Equinix’s data centre was approved without considering its impact on nearby communities. Activists have lodged an appeal against the rezoning approval given for this land near Cape Town Airport to be the site for a hyperscale data centre. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp Activists are appealing the City of Cape…
In South Africa, the debate about protecting young people from drugs is increasingly raising a different question: are current policies actually helping those who need support most? Charity Monareng, Executive Director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy International, said answering that question requires looking beyond prevention and asking whether young people have meaningful access to…
Nairobi — Kenya has stepped up its ambitions to become East Africa’s leading digital hub with the launch of the NBO2 data centre in Nairobi, expanding infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence, cloud computing, financial technology and regional digital connectivity. The facility, operated by Digital Realty following its acquisition of iColo, is designed to provide…
Ukraine’s chief prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko has resigned over corruption allegations related to illegal call centres in the country. It follows a search of his offices over the weekend by Ukrainian anti-corruption investigators, who said they had identified a money-laundering scheme led by an official in Kravchenko’s office. In his resignation letter, Kravchenko said he did…
Cybersecurity teams overwhelmed by alerts, critical infrastructure left unmonitored and budgets drained without results: these are some of the consequences of security operations centre (SOC) deployment mistakes. This step-by-step guide from Kaspersky is designed to help you avoid the pitfalls and build an effective SOC. When to build a SOC Businesses are distinct entities that…
Nvidia’s B300 GPU South African start-up Stratos Lab has begun deploying what it and its partners say will be the most powerful AI cloud on the continent, built on Nvidia’s latest shipping B300 “Blackwell Ultra” GPUs and hosted at a data centre in Centurion, north of Johannesburg. The stack will be up within three months….
SA’s data centres face growing scrutiny over their environmental footprint. (Image created via Gemini) South Africa’s major data centre operators are pushing back against concerns their rapid expansion is placing unsustainable pressure on the country’s limited electricity and water resources, pointing to their renewable energy and tighter resource management initiatives. This comes as the sector…
