7+ hour, 16+ min ago  (744+ words) South Africa has the legislative foundation to respond to nation-scale cyberattacks but the practical capacity has yet to be realised. A wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDo S) attacks earlier this week disrupted connectivity across more than half a dozen South African…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (749+ words) When Nelson Mandela stood before parliament in February 1996, he made a commitment that should have been one of the defining economic reforms of the democratic era. "For us, it is not a matter of whether, but of when, these controls…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (251+ words) Truecaller, the Nasdaq Stockholm-listed caller ID and spam protection platform, has launched a travel e Sim service in South Africa, marking what its chief operating officer described as the company's "first step" in cross-monetising its 500 million-strong user base into adjacent…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (642+ words) Most tracking systems are designed to operate in stable environments, where connectivity is assumed and visibility is continuous. That assumption no longer holds. In South Africa, the communication layer that underpins asset tracking is increasingly being targeted as part of…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (342+ words) The Gautrain Management Agency (GMA) plans to launch its own Uber- and Bolt-style e-hailing service in October, News24 reported on Friday. The move pushes the state-owned commuter rail operator deeper into the broader urban-mobility market at a moment of flux in…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (429+ words) Plug-in hybrid electric cars (PHEVs) outsold pure battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) by more than two to one in South Africa last year, marking the local market out as a global outlier even as overall electric car adoption remained stuck below 1% of…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (847+ words) Specops Software and Tech Central brought a room of senior executives together at the Park Hyatt Johannesburg on Thursday, 7 May, to dissect the password reset call. The verdict was uncomfortable: in many South African organisations, the helpdesk is no longer…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (419+ words) A small Cape Town start-up called Find Homes is trying to close that information gap. It describes itself as building "the property intelligence layer South Africa never had. Co-founded by Adrian Bunge and Jo Eyre, Find Homes has spent the…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (329+ words) This is a big year for the African data centres industry, with active IT load across the continent set to expand by 66%, far outpacing the global average growth rate. The Pan African Data Centres Conference programme features speakers working across…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (285+ words) Eskom has issued a formal notice of its intention to reduce, interrupt or terminate electricity supply to several bulk supply points serving the City of Johannesburg, after arrear debt owed by the metro and its distributor, City Power, climbed past…...