BSG and Technologies founder Bonisiwe “Thandoh” Gumede with Iris. Image: Supplied At the launch of Iris in Durban in August last year, government’s own news service reported the commitment that the AI humanoid tutor would be in every classroom in South Africa by the end of that October. Eleven months past that deadline, five schools…
South African talk radio is the last big pool of news that nobody can search. Locl is an attempt to change that: a platform that listens to the live streams of the country’s major English-language talk stations, transcribes everything, indexes it and lets you look up any name, brand or subject and find every time…
With the qualification race in Group E so tightly contested, another defeat could leave D’Tigers with little room for error heading into their final game of the window against Cape Verde on Sunday Nigeria’s D’Tigers have little times to dwell on their disappointing start to the second round of the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup…
Fifty eggs suspected to be those of endangered parrots were intercepted at South Africa’s main airport in Johannesburg last Thursday – and some of them have now hatched. A 50-year-old Thai national was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle them in a “homemade incubator bag” carried as hand luggage, according to the Department of Forestry,…
MTN South Africa CEO Ferdi Moolman MTN has been putting 90 million prepaid Sim cards into the South African market every year, and estimates the industry as a whole is pushing between 200 million and 300 million a year into a country of about 65 million people, adults and children. The astonishing figures came from…
Miss World South Africa, Romanda Hombir, has won the 2026 Miss World Africa Head-to-Head Challenge. She delivered a standout performance at the Head-to-Head (H2H) Challenge held in Nha Trang, Vietnam. She beat out the continental Top 5, which included Nigeria’s Soye Karibi George, Kenya’s Trizah Muhenje Akala, Zambia’s Dr Adah Mushibi, and Eritrea’s Snit Habteab…
Appearing at public hearings hosted by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), SpaceX urged regulators to address the ownership compliance rules currently preventing Starlink from securing an operating license in South Africa. Representing SpaceX, Ryan Goodnight, Senior Director for Market Access and Development, addressed the authority regarding draft amendments to the Radio Frequency…
MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita MTN Group cut capital spending on its South African network by 17.1% in the six months to June, to R2.64-billion excluding leases, in a half that saw its prepaid base shrink by about 1.5 million customers and its total subscriber base fall 0.7% year on year to 39.5 million. The…
There are no hidden management fees and no recurring licences simply to own and operate the UniFi infrastructure. South African businesses, hospitality venues, schools, estates, warehouses and multi-site organisations are becoming increasingly dependent on reliable connectivity, cyber security and physical security. At the same time, budgets are under pressure, networks are becoming more complex, and…
Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa told a Unisa audience recently that South Africa would keep coal in its mix as the backbone of its cheap energy assets, and that scientists are working on technology that will solve the environmental concerns around coal. “Because we have a duty and a responsibility to the…
