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Vodacom’s VodaBucks loyalty platform has once again been recognised for excellence, taking home multiple prestigious accolades at the inaugural African Loyalty Awards. These included Best Programme: Telco, Best Use of Gamification, Best Long-Term Loyalty Programme in Southern Africa, and Best Overall Long-Term Loyalty Programme of the Year in Africa. The awards celebrate Africa’s most...
South Africa’s wholesale power market was set to launch on 1 April – that date has now slipped.
Charge and AfriForum warn the amendments could delay EV charging rollout and create regulatory uncertainty across national roads.
The Post Office rescue is stuck between a minister who wants to wait and BRPs who say time has run out.
The ruling could be the beginning of the end of the social media era as we know it, writes the BBC Technology Editor Zoe Kleinman.
A pair of verdicts held social media companies accountable for harming young users, highlighting a growing backlash as Congress struggles to pass legislation.
“The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” tries to cover so much that it ends up being more confusing than clarifying, but parts are fascinating.
Durban’s finance leaders have seen enough AI demos – now they want systems that act on real data, says Sage.
PayShap will only truly work when it reaches critical mass. Three years in, is that it hasn’t done so. Here’s why.
Global mobile money transactions surpassed $2-trillion in 2025, doubling in just four years, with Africa driving the growth.
Datatec’s 361% five-year total shareholder return puts it among the best-performing tech stocks on the JSE.
Altron Digital Business helps organisations protect cloud workloads with Microsoft Defender managed services.
The release of the latest South Africa Social Cohesion Index comes at an important moment for the country as South Africans prepare for the local government elections later this year. Understanding the strength of the bonds that hold our society together is essential as communities evaluate leadership, service delivery, and the direction of the country. […]
FirstRand has deepened its bet on AI fintech Optasia, spending R1.48-billion to lift its stake to 26.1%.
Optasia, an AI-powered financial infrastructure platform serving underbanked customers in emerging markets, notes that FirstRand Limited has increased its shareholding in Optasia to 26.1% through the acquisition of an additional 6% stake. FirstRand acquired 74,103,711 ordinary shares in Optasia at ZAR20.00 on 25 March 2026 from an entity owned by Bassim Haidar, founder and non-executive […]
A box the size of a filing cabinet was lifted by crane, slowly moved and placed very carefully in the back of an unassuming lorry earlier this week. What looked like a casual drive around the Cern campus was actually a world-first experiment in transporting antimatter, the most expensive and volatile substance on Earth. To find out why scientists wanted to achieve this milestone, and what...
Roblox said safety was a top priority and it had advanced safeguards in place to keep users safe.
By leveraging social media and the influencer economy, he turned his website into a byword for online pornography in the 21st century.
The jobs cuts and a new stock program for executives come as Meta continues to shift its focus to artificial intelligence.
A jury found the companies negligent in their app designs, harming a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.
Alpha Trader Firm, a proprietary trading firm founded in 2022 and operating under the brand alphafunded.com, has reported distributing more than $50 million in cumulative payouts to funded traders across more than 100 countries since its launch, according to a company statement released this week. The London-based firm operates in the proprietary trading sector, which […]