Africa: Shelter Group Africa Honours Genocide Victims, Supports Survivors With Home Renovations

Africa: Shelter Group Africa Honours Genocide Victims, Supports Survivors With Home Renovations

Shelter Group Africa has joined the nation and the international community for the 32nd annual commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, through remembrance activities and targeted support to survivors. As part of the commemoration, Shelter Group Africa conducted a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Gisozi on April 9, where staff members…

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After mobile, Capitec Connect eyes home broadband push

After mobile, Capitec Connect eyes home broadband push

Capitec Bank’s mobile virtual network operator, Capitec Connect, more than doubled its net income contribution to R442-million in the year to 28 February 2026, as subscribers, data traffic and voice minutes all surged. The Cell C-hosted operator, which launched in late 2022, reported 1.5 million clients active in the past three months of the reporting…

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Specialists leave mobile operators behind on home internet

Specialists leave mobile operators behind on home internet

Vox has taken every fixed broadband award in Opensignal’s latest South African benchmarking exercise, an outcome that puts a specialist internet service provider ahead of the country’s largest mobile operators on home connectivity. The comparison measured the performance of Herotel, Vodacom, Rain, MTN, Telkom and Vox across connections spanning fibre and fixed wireless access –…

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ACT abandons home affairs identity fees lawsuit

ACT abandons home affairs identity fees lawsuit

ACT CEO Nomvuyiso Batyi The Association of Comms & Technology has abandoned its legal challenge against home affairs minister Leon Schreiber’s controversial hike in identity verification fees, with member companies opting to negotiate individual agreements with the department instead. ACT filed the high court application in January after Schreiber increased the fee for accessing the…

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Top ICT tenders: Home affairs targets records digitisation

Top ICT tenders: Home affairs targets records digitisation

The Department of Home Affairs has over 340 million paper records and will prioritise the digitisation of records relating to birth, marriage, death and amendments. (Image source: 123RF) A pre-long weekend rush makes for an interesting round-up from National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, with a mix of requests from national departments, metro municipalities and state-owned entities….

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Home affairs pressed to expedite digital upgrades

Home affairs pressed to expedite digital upgrades

Digital transformation has been touted as key to the DHA’s internal systems controls. (Image source: 123RF) Parliament’s oversight committee on home affairs has urged the department to “urgently accelerate” its digital transformation programme to strengthen internal controls. This, after a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) investigation uncovered large-scale immigration fraud and corruption at the Department of…

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Showmax Originals find a new home on DStv Stream

Showmax Originals find a new home on DStv Stream

MultiChoice has confirmed that Showmax Originals and select titles will migrate to DStv Stream, where they will sit in a dedicated Showmax section within the app — answering the question that has hung over subscribers since the streaming platform’s shutdown was announced earlier this month. The content will be available to DStv Compact and DStv…

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iOCO scraps ‘work from home’

iOCO scraps ‘work from home’

JSE-listed technology services group iOCO has scrapped its work-from-home policy entirely, requiring all employees to return to the office full time — and it says the move has delivered a measurable improvement in productivity, fewer errors and happier customers. The decision, disclosed by CEO Rhys Summerton during the group’s interim results presentation on Wednesday, places…

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