South African risk managers rank cyber incidents and business interruption well above the global average. NEWORDER’s Bennie Barnard, back from the CyberIsle 2026 conference in the Isle of Man, says the five things business owners fear share one way in, and warns that handing the answer to an automated AI tester leaves the door exactly…
The .za Domain Name Authority (Zadna) has put the contract to run .co.za, South Africa’s main commercial internet domain, out to tender, ahead of the expiry of the current operator’s agreement in September 2027. The request for proposals, issued on Monday, covers registry services for .co.za, .web.za, .net.za and .org.za. The winning bidder will get…
Verwoerd said in her view, the most stable coalitions would be those that replicate what the ANC and DA have done on a national level, where the historic rivals have agreed to share power. Reflecting on Cape Town, she said it was unlikely that the DA would lose control of the municipality. The coastal city…
South Africans bought more new-energy vehicles in the first nine months of 2026 than in the whole of last year, and most of them now of the plug-in variety. Plug-in hybrids outsell fully electric cars by more than 2.5 to one. Sales of new-energy vehicles – hybrids, plug-in hybrids and battery-electric vehicles – reached 22 389…
Icasa has concluded, provisionally, that South Africa’s system for letting new telecoms network operators into the market isn’t working, and that would-be operators should be allowed to apply to it directly for licences. In a discussion document published in the Government Gazette on Friday, the regulator said the current regime – under which a newcomer…
Finland has offered to help South African researchers gain access to Lumi, one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers, as the two countries try to turn decades of goodwill into a formal partnership on AI. The offer came at a South Africa-Finland dialogue on AI, hosted by the Finnish embassy at the National Research Foundation (NRF)…
South Africa and the Netherlands have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening water management in South Africa with the signing of a Declaration of Intent to advance the Blue Deal partnership into Phase III. Signed in Cape Town on Thursday, the declaration which covers the period 2027-2030, builds on the achievements of Phase II and sets…
Former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has condemned the reported xenophobic attacks against African nationals in South Africa, describing them as distressing and regrettable. Anyaoku expressed sadness that South Africans, who endured years of apartheid and received support from across Africa in their struggle for liberation, were now turning against fellow Africans from other countries….
Fake graphic: South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa didn’t say he’ll protect members of his party from corruption charges IN SHORT: A graphic quoting South African president Cyril Ramaphosa as promising to protect his ANC party members from prosecution is fake. Neither the presidency nor the ANC published it, and there’s no evidence that Ramaphosa said…
A bill to strengthen tobacco control in South Africa is slowly making progress. Parliament’s Health Committee voted in favour of the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill earlier this year, allowing it to move forward for a clause by clause review. The proposed law which was meant to prohibit point-of-sale product displays, make…
