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Pick n Pay puts a TikTok-style shopping feed inside its grocery app
48+ min ago (241+ words) Pick n Pay has built a shoppable video feed into its asap! delivery app, the second feature launch on the platform in two months as the retailer tries to close ground on Checkers Sixty60. The feature, Pick n Pay Inspire, runs…...
You still can't choose who sells you electricity in South Africa
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (261+ words) Households and small businesses will not be able to choose who sells them electricity when South Africa’s competitive electricity market opens, and those who install rooftop solar but stay connected to the grid will keep paying network charges – while anyone…...
Inside South Africa's clean coal programme
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (342+ words) Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa told a Unisa audience recently that South Africa would keep coal in its mix as the backbone of its cheap energy assets, and that scientists are working on technology that will solve the environmental concerns around…...
South Africa's AI neutrality has not yet been tested
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (608+ words) South Africa has not been asked to join Pax Silica, the American pact drawing the dividing line through the global AI supply chain, communications minister Solly Malatsi has indicated to TechCentral. Not one African country has signed it. The Pax…...
Smarter operations take centre stage at Electra Mining Africa 2026
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (236+ words) Industrial businesses are operating under sustained pressure. Rising operating costs, energy constraints, ageing infrastructure, supply chain uncertainty and skills shortages are forcing organisations to rethink how they run. At the same time, advances in AI, the industrial internet of things…...
South Africa to get a new national 5G broadband network
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (1085+ words) Comsol has begun selling wholesale access to a national 5G network purpose-built for home broadband, backed by a multibillion-rand fundraising round and a shareholder overhaul that has seen Nedbank Private Equity exit the company after nine years. Its backed by heavy-hitters,…...
South African inflation breaks its upward run
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (397+ words) South Africa’s headline consumer inflation slowed to 4.3% year on year in July from 5% in June, data from Statistics South Africa showed on Wednesday, breaking a four-month run of accelerating prices. Economists polled by Reuters had expected inflation would ease to…...
No partner, no funding: Post Office wants out of rescue anyway
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (618+ words) The South African Post Office is trying to leave business rescue without a single committed private sector partner, without guaranteed government funding and with an unresolved statutory creditor claim that two funds are now using to oppose its exit. That…...
South Africa's fraud problem is persuasion, not hacking
1+ week, 9+ min ago (439+ words) Threat intelligence firm Flashpoint has published the midyear edition of its 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report, which says criminals have stopped experimenting with AI and started operating on it. In the six months to 30 June 2026, Flashpoint counted more than 22 million threat…...
TCS | Herotel CEO Van Zyl Botha on beating Starlink to South Africa
1+ week, 4+ day ago (159+ words) TechCentral Get the best South African technology news and analysis delivered to your e-mail inbox every morning. TCS | Herotel CEO Van Zyl Botha on beating Starlink to South Africa Amazon’s Leo satellite constellation is coming to South Africa in 2027 through…...