Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — The Uganda Embassy in Addis Ababa has expressed strong support for the Inter-African Coffee Organisation (IACO) and its newly opened office at the African Union headquarters, reaffirming Uganda’s commitment to a continental strategy aimed at transforming Africa’s coffee sector. The support was conveyed during a courtesy call on the Chargé d’Affaires…
Redefine Properties has switched on a R106-million solar plant on a warehouse roof in Brackengate, Cape Town, that will wheel electricity through the city’s grid to three of its properties. It comes three years after Redefine announced the project, and R20-million above its first estimate. The property group this week launched the 7MWp (megawatt-peak) plant…
Richard Riehle, a prolific character actor whose bushy mustache and knack for portraying beleaguered middlemen made him a favorite of Hollywood casting directors for decades, has died, his representatives said Monday. He was 78. Riehle’s representatives said he died over the weekend but did not provide details about the cause. Riehle was best known for…
Vredefort Post Office The South African Post Office expects to lose about R391-million in 2026/2027, even after public funding, and is asking the state for about R2.2-billion in new money over the next three years to keep operating and start rebuilding its network. The figures are in the Post Office’s corporate plan for 2026/2027, presented…
Anthropic is building something that looks increasingly like an office suite. On Thursday, the AI company added live data dashboards and animated video explainers to its Claude chatbot, and moved its document, presentation and design tools out of testing and onto every Claude plan, including the free one. The additions put Anthropic in more direct…
Voice assistants, smart-speakers, and voice-assisted systems are becoming increasingly popular in the modern workplace. However, this increasingly popular wave of voice-activated accessibility is creating a whole new privacy vulnerability for the organisation. A 2025 review on Privacy in Speech Technology found that voice interfaces can hear conversations occurring in the same acoustic space and can…
The South African Post Office is trying to leave business rescue without a single committed private sector partner, without guaranteed government funding and with an unresolved statutory creditor claim that two funds are now using to oppose its exit. That was the picture that emerged on Tuesday when the Post Office, its business rescue practitioners…
South Africans will soon be able to tap their cards – or their phones – to pay at the Post Office, as the entity rolls out modern payment terminals across 610 branches in a first phase of its branch modernisation programme. The roll-out brings EMV-compliant chip-and-Pin terminals, contactless tap payments and support for smartphone digital…
Post Office acting CEO Fathima Gany The South African Post Office is finally in a position to attract the partners it needs to survive, acting CEO Fathima Gany has told TechCentral in an interview – provided government delivers the R3.8-billion it promised but has never paid. Gany, who leads the “high care” leadership team assembled…
US President Donald Trump made more than $1bn (£750m) last year from business dealings in cryptocurrency, according to his mandatory financial report for 2025. In a 927-page disclosure, he reported $635m in royalties from a Trump meme coin that has plunged in value since he launched it days before taking office. He also reported over…
