
Activists challenge 160MW Cape Town data centre project
Campaigners want a major Cape Town data centre plan blocked until its water and power impact is disclosed.
WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026, 02:08

Campaigners want a major Cape Town data centre plan blocked until its water and power impact is disclosed.

One of the biggest risks of SaaS-based supply chain attacks is that they exploit trust rather than technical weaknesses, says CG Selva Ganesh, VP and CEO SA at In2IT Technologies.

Solid8 will participate at both the Cape Town and Johannesburg events with partners Saviynt, Semperis and Ping.

Too often, cloud decisions are still made as technical choices rather than business-critical investments, says Resilient Innovations.

Microsoft estimates 23.1% of working-age South Africans use generative AI – well ahead of the rest of the continent.

The attack has been successfully mitigated and full network functionality has been restored, says 1-Grid.

Storage optimisation helps companies regain control of how data is created, stored, governed and protected.

Spinnaker Support announced its formal entry into the South African market in partnership with African Rainbow Capital.

Cloud Vault S3, from Metrofile Cloud, is S3-compatible object storage hosted locally, and it does not charge ingress or egress fees.

Operational resilience is not measured during ideal conditions, it is measured during disruption, says Sigfox.

The Digital Learning Centre at the BG Alexander Estate in Hillbrow is the second facility delivered through Altron’s partnership with citizen movement Jozi My Jozi.

The work of Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn has long been controversial. Until Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became US health policy chief, most vaccine scientists tended to ignore it. Now they can’t.

The global humanoid robot market across various sectors is forecast to reach $25 billion over the next decade.

State-aligned Iranian media is floating a plan to charge the world’s tech giants rent on subsea cables in the Strait of Hormuz.

The revision stems from the treatment of the “change in fair value of equity securities, net” line item in its Q3 FY2026 results.

Kaspersky GM for sub-Saharan Africa Chris Norton explains why SOCs are becoming a boardroom priority.
Iran’s government “wants to charge the world’s largest tech companies for using the subsea internet cables laid under the Strait of Hormuz,” reports CNN. Their article also notes that Iran’s state-linked media outlets “have vaguely threatened that traffic could be disrupted if firms don’t pay.”Lawmakers in Tehran discussed a plan last week which could target submarine cables linking Arab...

Netstar has opened an inner-city learning centre as Altron’s Jozi My Jozi partnership moves to measurable youth impact.

Despite ICT Steering Committees, public sector ICT programmes continue to fail, as governance arrangements formally exist, but are not effectively operationalised.

Galeboe will distribute Binarii Labs’ solutions – BinariiDSP, BinariiDSM and CyqurPRO – across SA and key African markets.

Real-time payments are transforming B2B retail, closing settlement gaps and improving efficiency, says Penny Langton, senior manager: operations at Altron Fintech.