The Durban arrival highlighted growing EV choice and charging access, while industry representatives called for policy certainty to support wider adoption. South African Automotive Week (SA Auto Week) 2026 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, was the destination for electric vehicle (EV) road-trippers from Johannesburg, Cape Town and East London. According to The Electric Mission, the 2026 road…
Abuja — Three-day forum brings editors and journalists from five African countries together around evidence, reporting practice and safer-road policy. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) will today open a three-day African media forum on road safety in Abuja, bringing together editors, journalists, content creators and road…
The region accounts for about one-fifth of global road fatalities despite having only three per cent of the world’s registered vehicles The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) have begun developing Africa’s first road safety media guidelines, aimed at improving how newsrooms across the continent report road crashes…
42 nations will compete for seven places alongside hosts Egypt at the TotalEnergies CAF U-23 AFCON 2027 Three qualifying rounds to be played between September 2026 and March 2027 Final tournament will form part of Africa’s pathway to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games The pathway to the TotalEnergies CAF Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations…
In her first public interview, Perez Hilton’s sister opened up about discovering her brother during his self-harm incident, revealed he had been grappling with depression and offered thoughts about his long road to recovery. Barbara Lavandeira told the New York Post’s Page Six that Aug. 4 “will forever be one of the darkest days my…
Huawei hosted customers and partners at the Smart Transportation Summit, part of Huawei South Africa Connect 2026, to discuss how intelligent technologies can help improve the safety and efficiency of South Africa’s transport network. Held under the theme Driving Mobility and Logistics into the Intelligent World, the summit saw Huawei launch 12 solutions across four…
The second phase of the Ministerial Seminar on New Media Capacity Building for Women Officials from Belt and Road Countries officially commenced on Sunday in Changsha, Hunan Province, with participants set to gain first-hand experience of how China is revolutionising the media industry through artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies. The seminar follows a week-long…
War in the Middle East is pushing up the price of bitumen, the material used to make asphalt and road surfaces – and the effects are being felt across Africa, where few countries produce their own. Higher costs and longer delivery times are forcing firms from Madagascar to Guinea to Cameroon to renegotiate contracts, absorb…
Driven by an early industry rush to prioritise agility over efficiency, massive cloud infrastructure scale has left behind a costly legacy of financial fragility. Addressing this widespread corporate vulnerability, international software development and cloud specialist BBD has announced the publication of its latest comprehensive white paper, Architecting Cloud Value: A FinOps Approach to Driving Bottom-Line…
CloudZA, an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with specialised designations in generative AI and agentic AI, recently co-hosted a closed-door AI executive roundtable with Amazon Web Services. Aimed at South African enterprise and technology leaders – heads of AI, CEOs, CIOs, CTOs and heads of innovation – the session focused on the defining technical challenge…
