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Seacom CEO Alpheus Mangale has stepped down from Absa’s board while an investigation into complaints concerning the submarine cable operator’s management remains under way.

Former Dimension Data and NTT chief executive Jason Goodall has acknowledged an undisclosed financial interest in the 2019 sale of the company’s Johannesburg headquarters, agreeing to pay NTT about R208.6m in settlement of the dispute.

Artificial intelligence has emerged as a key issue during interviews for judicial candidates seeking positions on the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA).

Cybersecurity has traditionally focused on keeping attackers out. To protect their systems, organisations have invested heavily in firewalls, endpoint protection, identity controls, and monitoring.

NEC XON has been appointed an accredited Cohesity Technical Support Partner Program (TSPP) Partner, strengthening its ability to deliver enterprise data protection, cyber resilience and recovery solutions to African enterprises.

For businesses looking to build loyalty among their customers, success ultimately doesn't hinge on marketing or advertising campaigns or on automation, AI bots and Customer Experience (CX) platforms, but on the quality of engagement provided by their customer service agents, who are often the true face of the company.

The narrative about Africa's technological future is often framed through the narrow lens that the continent must "catch up" to global innovation. But this framing misses a critical point: Africa has never simply been a consumer of technology. We adapt it, reshape it, and increasingly originate it.

Cybersecurity training remains one of the most persistent challenges in corporate South Africa, not because organisations don't invest in it, but because too many still treat it as a once-off exercise. Ticking a compliance box and moving on. The result? Employees forget what they learned, threats evolve, and the organisation stays vulnerable.

WAPA says resource disclosures and enforceable conditions should precede approvals for large data centre precincts

MTN Group president and CEO Ralph Mupita has secured another term on the board of the GSM Association (GSMA), giving South Africa continued representation at the highest level of the global mobile industry.

Identity protection must be integral to cyber resilience. Although organisations continue to invest heavily in data protection and backup strategies, most breaches begin with compromised credentials, often privileged Active Directory (AD) accounts that give attackers unfettered access.

There are probably more digital transformation strategies sitting in South African executive archives than there are organisations successfully delivering against them. The problem isn't necessarily the quality of the strategies.

Sanlam is moving to take full ownership of Santam, offering minority shareholders R505 a share in a deal that will end the insurer’s 62-year run as a separately listed company if approved.

South Africa's digital identity programme could become important infrastructure for the country's digital economy, but its real value will depend on how widely the technology can be adopted and how effectively it connects government with the private sector.

Cell C delivered stronger revenue, profitability and subscriber growth in the year to May 2026, as its parent company Blu Label Unlimited continued to reshape the telecommunications group.

New solution combines frictionless shopping, AI-enabled personalisation and retail media

A short time ago, the main issue in cloud computing was this: How fast could we migrate?

ISP deployment and emerging enterprise cybersecurity opportunities lead the charge

For logistics companies, speed now depends on more than moving goods. It also depends on how quickly the business can capture proof of delivery, resolve exceptions, complete compliance records and move a transaction towards payment.

Eskom chair Mteto Nyati has been given another three-year term as the power utility moves from fixing the electricity crisis to tackling affordability, financial sustainability and sweeping market reforms.

Altron expects a significant improvement in interim earnings, with headline earnings per share (HEPS) forecast to rise by between 21% and 27% for the six months to the end of August 2026.

Cell C CEO Jorge Mendes has invested R20.8m in the telecommunications operator through two share purchases on the JSE, increasing his direct beneficial interest in the company as it continues efforts to restore financial stability and return to sustainable growth.

For many organisations, digital transformation occurred quickly and under pressure

Workforce Holdings has introduced a customisable, cloud-based workforce AI processing platform to bridge the gap between traditional paper workflows and modern digital enterprise systems.

Many South African organisations have historically seen backup as the quiet, dependable safety net of their IT estate – something that can be set up once, monitored occasionally and trusted to be there when disaster strikes.

Why third-party cyber risk is a financial risk for South African businesses

Cyber incidents are not new, but the way organisations are expected to respond to them is changing. Under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), breach reporting has increased significantly in South Africa

The publication of information linked to Hollard customers has brought renewed attention to the cybersecurity risks created by third-party technology providers, following a breach at insurance technology company MIP Holdings earlier this year.

Document workflows affect reporting, cash flow, compliance and the quality of business decisions

For years, cloud adoption was seen as a destination. Organisations moved workloads, updated applications, and welcomed the flexibility and scalability promised by cloud environments

For years, cybersecurity strategies focused on protecting centralised environments such as data centres and corporate networks, and, more recently, the cloud. However, the rapid growth of edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and distributed digital infrastructure is changing this landscape.

Proximie, AWS and Deloitte join eight NHS hospitals in a major real-world test of surgical AI designed to unlock capacity without adding theatres or staff

From South Africa's first corporate APN to 25+ countries, Metacom has spent 25 years keeping African business connected

Enterprises are connecting AI assistants to more of their real infrastructure every month, from inboxes to file drives to internal tools, on the assumption that the isolation between users and accounts holds. Check Point Research just tested that assumption against ChatGPT and found a way to break it. Using an internal service that was never meant to carry user data at all, CPR opened a working channel between two completely separate ChatGPT accounts and used it to hand one victim's session a task from a total stranger, all while the victim's own conversation looked entirely normal.

Lesaka Technologies has crossed an important milestone in its fintech turnaround, reporting its first full-year GAAP profit as stronger earnings from its consumer and enterprise businesses helped offset pressure in its merchant operation.

Check Point Research reveals a 22% year-on-year increase in global cyber attacks and a rise in phishing activity. Attacks on African organisations exceed global averages

Phillip Nganga to drive accelerated growth across the rapidly expanding market

South African organisations are showing strong enthusiasm for artificial intelligence, but the rush to adopt AI risks overlooking a more fundamental question: are businesses actually ready to use it effectively?

A few years ago, Artificial Intelligence (AI) was mostly an experiment. Companies saw it as futuristic, expensive, and typically only accessible to big tech firms. Then Generative AI (GenAI) arrived and quickly shifted the conversation. Suddenly, executives in various industries began asking, "How quickly can we implement this?"

Having used AI to automate its own executive and financial reporting, the African systems integrator is extending the approach to customers through a partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Vodacom Group has appointed former JSE CEO Leila Fourie as an alternate director to chairman Saki Macozoma, bringing her payments and financial-services experience into the telecoms group's boardroom ahead of a planned leadership transition.

Huawei and Xiaomi are stepping up their assault on the premium smartphone market with new foldable flagships, setting the stage for an increasingly competitive battle with Apple and Samsung.

Cyber insurance has typically been a grudge purchase, but it is rapidly becoming something businesses cannot operate without.

Discovery is accelerating its transformation into a global healthtech player, using artificial intelligence, healthcare data and digital engagement technology to expand beyond its traditional insurance business.

AI is reshaping cybersecurity at extraordinary speed. Check Point Research is already uncovering AI-powered attacks in the wild, revealing how threat actors are operating at greater scale and with growing sophistication. As these capabilities advance, cyber defense must advance just as quickly.

Armata Cyber Security and RedRok Cyber have announced a partnership to help protect businesses across South Africa and the broader SADC region from increasing cyber threats. With attacks increasingly being carried out with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), this partnership brings enterprise-grade continuous threat exposure management to mid-sized, large and enterprise businesses at affordable costs to adapt to the rapidly evolving threat landscape.

In the South African acquiring environment, the account manager role is no longer defined by the relationship alone. Increasingly responsible for helping merchants optimise the complete payment lifecycle across authorisation, reliable settlement and reconciliation, channel expansion and chargeback exposure, it is a role that has become central to the business and its ability to handle changing customer demands and expectations. Traditionally a more reactive relationship, it is now commercially accountable and technically fluent, enhancing merchant experiences and building trust as an advisor.

While Artificial intelligence (AI) has been particularly good at answering questions, many may be wondering how else the technology could help us in our daily lives. Well, we are already starting to see the next phase of AI, where intelligence has leapt off the screen and into the physical world.

The Association of Comms and Technology (ACT) wants a five-year exemption from parts of the Competition Act so that six of South Africa's largest network operators can coordinate parts of their rural infrastructure rollout.

African organisations risk falling behind global counterparts as artificial intelligence reshapes cyber defence, warns NEC XON. The company argues that many organisations on the continent are retrofitting AI into legacy cyber security architectures instead, rather than of redesigning their environments with AI as the foundational layer. This distinction - migration versus transformation - will help determine whether African businesses can keep pace with rapidly advancing markets such as the United States.

For technology providers looking to build sustainable capacity across Africa, the continent's regulatory, commercial, infrastructure and business cultures diversity make local capability increasingly important. This is particularly true in Francophone Africa, where language and market complexity can create barriers to meaningful engagement. NEC XON is deliberately strengthening its capability in French-speaking markets, moving beyond an opportunistic approach to expansion towards building a sustained regional presence.

Outdoor Wi-Fi is no longer as simple as getting a signal outside; it has become a customer loyalty and engagement entry point, a connection that extends beyond the moment and into data, insights, and innovation, says Craig Blignaut, Wi-Fi Product Manager at Vox.

Featuring Mew on the USB-C™ flash drive and Mewtwo on the portable SSD, the new lineup combines design innovation, portability, and trusted performance for Pokémon fans

MTN Group delivered a stronger-than-expected first half of 2026, reporting double-digit service revenue growth, improved earnings and robust cash generation as it pressed ahead with its Ambition 2030 strategy.

For much of the past decade, cloud migration was the main topic in technology discussions. Organisations were urged to shift workloads from on-premises systems to the cloud as quickly as possible. The business case was compelling: elastic scalability, faster resource provisioning, reduced dependence on physical infrastructure, improved operational agility, and accelerated digital innovation.

OEM training facility and live data centre environment enhance the IBTC talent pipeline — with Master Power Technologies and Digital Parks sponsoring a full candidate cohort for 2026

Cell C has reported further progress in its recovery, adding more than one million customers while significantly reducing its debt burden during the financial year ended 31 May 2026.

New SANDISK® NAS 600 SATA and SANDISK® NAS 800 NVMe™ SSDs deliver high endurance and performance for demanding, multi-user NAS environments

For many years, organisations viewed cybersecurity as a simple goal: preventing attackers from entering the corporate network. Businesses invested heavily in firewalls, antivirus software, email filtering, and access controls, all meant to strengthen the edges and block threats before they caused damage.

South Africa has spent years treating fibre as the broadband finish line and wireless as a temporary arrangement until the trench reaches the gate. That hierarchy is now out of date.