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In a landmark outcome for medical scheme accountability, advocacy firm MediCheck has secured a full reversal of Discovery Health Medical Scheme’s attempt to recover an estimated R130-170 million from 16,500 members for an administration error they did not cause. The decision, announced by Discovery late Sunday, follows a week of intense pressure and formal dispute […]

Apple led the market with a 20% share, the largest among the top five brands, according to Counterpoint Research.

Learners who wrote the 2025 matric exams have various channels through which they can access their results available to them.

Forces including extreme densification, gigawatt scaling and data centre as a unit of compute are driving these trends.

For companies that depend on complex digital systems, escrow is no longer a niche technical precaution, it’s a governance imperative, says Anthony Watson, CEO at ESCROWSURE.

By establishing a presence in Richards Bay, Amidel aims to recruit local talent from nearby tertiary institutions.

South Africa enters 2026 with high commodity prices, reliable electricity, stable finances, and lower interest rates, creating the strongest foundation for growth in over a decade. Progress on three critical priorities will determine whether this momentum translates into sustained 2%+ growth: transforming logistics through rail and port concessioning, fixing local government service delivery,...

As companies harness tools like OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint, they also drive a growing data governance headache within company, says Thys Fourie, COO at Exponant.

The Electoral Commission is inviting bids for public website hosting as it prepares for elections later this year.

India has proposed requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government.

Walmart’s online shopping experience is getting the Gemini treatment.

The era of SABC TV licences, introduced in 1975, will likely soon come to an end.

Recorded in cave drawings as far back as 1000BC, this is one of the oldest zodiacal constellations to be recognised in its modern form
Taurus, the bull, is our focus this week. One of the oldest constellations to be recognised in its modern form, it was recorded as the bull of heaven in Babylonian records from about 1000BC, but cave drawings from Lascaux, France, suggest that humans may already...
An anonymous reader shared this report from It’s FOSS:Jenny Guanni Qu, a researcher at [VC fund] Pebblebed, analyzed 125,183 bugs from 20 years of Linux kernel development history (on Git). The findings show that the average bug takes 2.1 years to find. [Though the median is 0.7 years, with the average possibly skewed by “outliers” discovered after years of hiding.] The longest-lived bug, a...

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South Africa returns to work with a significantly more stable and predictable electricity supply, marking a turning point after years of severe load-shedding. This improvement is a direct result of Eskom’s Generation Recovery Plan, launched in April 2023, which has delivered a structurally stronger power system. Compared to January 2025, an additional 4,400 MW of […]

January 2026 has been a hot month for the crypto market, with both the Shiba Inu price and the price of Ethereum seeing steady growth. Despite this, many traders are now turning their attention to Digitap ($TAP). This crypto presale gem is in its third round but has already sold over 180 million $TAP tokens. […]

South Africa’s driving licence cards may become more expensive if their validity is extended.

South Africa’s electricity supply has entered 2026 in its strongest position in at least five years, Eskom has said.

Neuroscientist Ben Rein is on a mission to show that being around others not only feels good, but can even improve recovery from strokes, cancer and heart attacks. So why are so many of us isolated and glued to our phones?
‘I hate it.” I’ve asked the neuroscientist Ben Rein how he feels about the online sea of junk neuroscience we swim in – the “dopamine fasts”, “serotonin...