The 90-day show will feature one representative from each African country, with the winner chosen mainly through paid public voting in an ‘election’ format. Organisers of Queen of Africa have officially launched a pan-African reality television show designed to amplify women’s leadership, cultural identity, and advocacy across the continent, with contestants drawn from all 54…
South African media has been saturated with Starlink coverage for months. Every ministerial statement, every regulatory development, every parliamentary objection becomes headline news. Yet amid this relentless coverage, a curious question emerges: why Starlink specifically? The regulatory challenges facing Elon Musk’s satellite service aren’t unique. Major global technology companies have long navigated South Africa’s broad-based…
The 2025 matric results are in. Top achievers have been photographed. Headlines have declared success. And if you believe the numbers, South African education is thriving. But there’s a figure that didn’t make the announcements: 51%. That’s South Africa’s throughput rate, the percentage of children who start grade 1 and make it through to matric….
US President Donald Trump. Brian Snyder/Reuters After celebrating Donald Trump’s second presidential term by swilling cocktails and partying to Snoop Dogg at a pre-inauguration event in January, the crypto industry went on to notch major legislative and regulatory victories this year. But the party may not continue into 2026. Among the industry’s biggest wins under…
Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT If you needed a case study in political point-scoring trumping sober analysis, look no further than the ANC’s broadside on Saturday against communications minister Solly Malatsi’s policy directive on equity equivalent investment programmes (EEIPs). The party’s statement – framed as a defence of transformation and parliamentary authority – comes…
Solar industry body Sapvia has said the maturing of South Africa’s renewable energy sector brings with it many opportunities for the local manufacture of solar PV components. But swapping out manufacturing for the current import and assemble model threatens to slow job creation. “Manufacturing in this space is important. The industry is finding those spaces…
Is your AI hallucinating? RAG, vibe coding and the data reality. What’s the true cost of chasing the latest AI hype? More often than not, it’s a solution in search of a problem. In this sharp, pragmatic new episode of Tech Unboxed, BBD software engineers Riselle Rawthee and Hyla Fourie pull back the curtain on…
Entebbe, Uganda — When policymakers, economists and civil society leaders from the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) converged recently in Uganda’s lakeside town of Entebbe for a regional symposium on domestic resource mobilisation, the mood was one of introspection. The two-day (Nov.25-26) event, convened by the Southern and Eastern…
WeBuyCars CEO Faan van der Walt South African consumers have all but turned their backs on electric vehicles – so far, at least – and the impact on the used-car market is impossible to ignore. Speaking in an interview with TechCentral on Monday following publication of the group’s annual results to 30 September 2025, WeBuyCars…
For many African communities, the climate crisis is not a future scenario – it is a daily emergency. Irreversible losses, destroyed homes, failed harvests, vanishing ecosystems and lack of access to clean water are already happening. I’m a researcher in how to manage the risks of climate change and protect communities against climate disasters. I…
