The M10 has a 10 000mAh battery, 6GB RAM, 128GB storage and runs Android 14. (Image supplied) South African-founded technology company Solid Cell Phone Mobile, trading as SolidSA, is preparing to enter the local smartphone market with its first device, the SolidSA M10. The company, established in 2023 by entrepreneur Siyabonga Ngema, is targeting the…
For two decades, GovTech has been the room where South Africa’s digital government story gets written. This year, that story reaches a milestone worth pausing on. GovTech 2026 runs from 21 to 23 September in Durban, marking the platform’s 20th anniversary. Organised by the State Information Technology Agency, it remains the country’s largest gathering of…
Advocate Andy Mothibi, national director of public prosecutions at the National Prosecuting Authority. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has admitted that criminal syndicates now rely on digital platforms, complex financial structures and cross-border networks. It says South Africa’s crime-fighting strategy must focus on disrupting entire criminal systems, rather than simply accumulating case numbers. Speaking at…
On Dennis Pritt Road in Nairobi’s Kilimani district, long queues formed outside the Burundian embassy on 7 September. People were waiting for laissez-passers, temporary travel documents enabling them to return home without valid passports. The embassy had offered to issue them free of charge. Early social-media reports also referred to Congolese nationals preparing to leave…
ICASA has taken on a community station in the apex court. (Graphic: Nicola Mawson | Unsplash and official images) Having lost two previous cases over whether it can condone the late application for a licence renewal, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has taken the matter – which involves a community radio station…
Tehran’s grocery stores are well-stocked, but many families can barely afford the basics. Unemployment is soaring and those with jobs are working more hours for money worth half as much as a year ago, putting food, medicine and everything else — except for heavily subsidized gasoline — further out of reach. “We have virtually given…
In the wake of cyberattacks on American water systems and cutbacks to federal assistance programs, some water companies are turning to volunteers, smaller cybersecurity companies and an AI program from Vanderbilt University for help. A new initiative announced Friday would create a first-of-its-kind hub for water facilities to share information on cyberthreats and build specialized…
Seid Mohammedbirhan with the sewing machine that kickstarted his business empire. Today, it sits on display inside a shopping mall he owns. Seid Mohammedbirhan was born in 1960 in the town of Adi Awro, in a rural part of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. He was the younger of two sons in a family of small-scale…
The latest phase builds on previous rounds of implementation in 2023 and 2025, which trained plant health officials from 20 African countries African governments are scaling up efforts to modernise plant health systems, expanding a digital surveillance programme to 38 countries in a bid to contain crop pests, strengthen food security and improve access to…
It’s 20 years to the day since the UN Human Rights Council began its work as the world’s principal forum tasked with promoting and defending fundamental rights everywhere, particularly the world’s most vulnerable people. “Human rights were built for moments like this,” said Awa Dabo, the newly appointed Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, “when…
