Mobile operators in Africa have about a quarter less spectrum than their peers elsewhere, and pay 24% more for each unit of it relative to their revenue, according to a new report from the GSMA, the industry body that represents mobile operators. The report, Spectrum Policy in Africa, published this month by GSMA Intelligence, found…
The South African Revenue Service is investing heavily in artificial intelligence The South African Revenue Service will pay Microsoft almost R1.6-billion over three years to renew its software licences and support, and IBM nearly R1.2-billion, under contracts approved without open tenders, its latest annual report shows. The Microsoft deal, worth R1.58-billion, renews Sars’s Microsoft enterprise…
Cloud and AI investments do not automatically create business value. That was the verdict from a recent executive roundtable hosted by TechCentral in partnership with Cloud On Demand and Microsoft on 3 September 2026, where C-suite executives and senior technology leaders examined what they called “The Margin Illusion”: the assumption that adopting cloud and AI…
Blu Label co-CEOs, brothers Brett and Mark Levy Blu Label Unlimited Group’s highest earner took home R36.5-million in the year to May, about 470 times the R77 400 earned by its lowest-paid permanent employee, according to pay-gap disclosures now required under the amended Companies Act. The median employee earned R495 000, so the top earner was paid…
A teleprompter operator for President Donald Trump who made online prediction trades based on information from upcoming speeches has been ordered to pay $172,000, a federal agency said Friday night. Gabriel Perez used “material, nonpublic information” he obtained through his job to place “trades” on a prediction market, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in…
Pick n Pay has built a shoppable video feed into its asap! delivery app, the second feature launch on the platform in two months as the retailer tries to close ground on Checkers Sixty60. The feature, Pick n Pay Inspire, runs a scrolling feed of recipe, entertainment and Pick n Pay Clothing videos. Products appear…
Prince Harry must pay Daily Mail publisher millions after invasion of privacy case fails – CBS News Watch CBS News Prince Harry and six others, including musician Elton John, must pay the publisher of Daily Mail millions of pounds after their failed invasion of privacy suit. Ian Lee has more details.
Checkers has added conversational abilities to Pixie, the Sixty60 AI shopping assistant, closing the clearest gap between it and Penny, the rival Pick n Pay switched on in July. When Pick n Pay launched Penny, the two assistants were built on opposite philosophies. Penny, running on Google’s Gemini models, started from conversation: ask for a…
Capitec has agreed to open its Capitec Pay platform to competing payment service providers, and not to favour it over the banking industry’s shared instant-payments rail, as conditions for regulatory approval of its acquisition of payments fintech Walletdoc. The Competition Commission has recommended that the Competition Tribunal approve the transaction subject to those conditions. The…
Funda ngesiZuluBy Palesa Matlala South Africa says African countries must invest more of their own money in HIV programmes as international donor funding continues to decline. A new once a month HIV prevention pill is showing promise, but it is still being tested and cannot yet be used by the public. South Africa has one…
