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South Africa's electric car floodgates are opening
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (880+ words) GWM’s Ora 5 battery-electric vehicle Much has been written about how miserable electric vehicle sales have been in South Africa. Car makers evidently think that is about to change. At the Festival of Motoring at Kyalami from 28-30 August, at least 19 battery-electric…...
End of an era for South Africa's payments system
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (592+ words) South Africa’s banks have lost the body through which they collectively governed the national payment system. On 2 September, the Reserve Bank’s recognition of the Payments Association of South Africa as the country’s payment system management body lapsed, ending a self-regulatory…...
A petaflop on a desk - rethinking AI infrastructure for South Africa
4+ day, 57+ min ago (518+ words) The ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N from Altron Arrow South African organisations have stopped asking what AI might do for them. The questions now are operational: how to deploy it, where it should run, how much compute it needs, and what that…...
VALR and Luno fight Treasury's cross-border crypto draft
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (615+ words) South Africa’s biggest regulated crypto platforms have taken their fight public, forming a coalition and launching a petition against draft rules that would bar local companies from making cross-border payments in crypto assets. At issue is the draft crypto asset…...
The case against a light-touch AI policy for South Africa
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (327+ words) South Africa should regulate AI through binding rules anchored in the constitution rather than through voluntary ethical principles and self-regulation, according to a University of Cape Town doctoral thesis. Minister Solly Malatsi has staked South Africa’s AI future on staying…...
Uber retreats from key African markets
1+ week, 3+ day ago (526+ words) Uber is cutting about 3 300 jobs, roughly a tenth of its global headcount, in a restructuring designed to flatten its management hierarchy and concentrate resources on three things: ride-hailing, delivery and autonomous vehicles. The number of managers is being slashed by…...
Report shows big shifts in online spending in South Africa
1+ week, 3+ day ago (631+ words) South African online retail is expected to reach R159-billion in 2026, up from R130-billion last year – but the rate of growth is expected to decline to 22.5%, from 35.4% in 2025 and 35.2% the year before. The figures come from Online Retail in South Africa…...
South Africans are buying fewer phones and paying more for them
1+ week, 4+ day ago (379+ words) South Africans bought markedly fewer smartphones in the first half of 2026 and paid considerably more for the ones they did buy, according to NielsenIQ’s latest State of the Retail Nation analysis. Telecoms is the largest category in the local tech…...
NEWORDER brings Lasso's AI agent controls to South Africa
1+ week, 4+ day ago (515+ words) NEWORDER has partnered with Lasso Security, a Tel Aviv-based AI security company, to bring agentic AI protection to South Africa. The platform lets NEWORDER run continuous adversarial testing against a client’s AI agents — attacking them the way an outsider would,…...
Eskom and business lobby call a truce over grid reform
1+ week, 6+ day ago (469+ words) Eskom and Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) have issued a joint statement declaring common ground on electricity reform, ending a public dispute that broke into the open in July. The two say they held a “direct and constructive engagement” on…...