2+ hour, 21+ min ago  (224+ words) If AI really is about to reshape the global economy, the question for South Africa is not whether the technology arrives but whether the country owns any part of it. As argued in a previous column, the abundance its boosters…...

4+ hour, 38+ min ago  (178+ words) Zimbabwe's state power utility Zesa reported a nationwide power outage on Monday evening, saying a technical fault on its network caused the blackout at 6. 24pm. Zesa said its technical teams were investigating the cause of the outage. Zimbabweans have long experience…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (292+ words) For a country that South Africa counts among its closest economic partners, the document is worth reading closely. It is, in the words of the plan's own digital chapter (in translation), a drive to "fully implement the "AI Plus' initiative…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (250+ words) Powertel Communications and Paratus Zimbabwe have announced that the first phase of their cross-border fibre project is now live and carrying traffic " a major step in building a new high-capacity digital corridor that will connect Zimbabwe to Botswana, Zambia, South…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (335+ words) Black Berry didn't lose because it ignored ordinary customers. It lost while it was winning them over. Its cheap prepaid data plan, launched by Vodacom in December 2008, opened Black Berry to millions of South Africans who couldn't afford a monthly…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago  (517+ words) Google has confirmed the Eastern Cape as the site for a "digital exchange hub" that will act as a subsea cable landing station, part of its Umoja project " the first fibre-optic route to directly connect Africa with Australia. Speaking to…...

6+ day, 46+ min ago  (276+ words) Ask the people building AI where it all leads and the answer is paradise. Sam Altman, Open AI's CEO, argues in his essay, Moore's Law for Everything, that AI will drive the cost of goods and services towards zero, because…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (599+ words) In the early days of Pepla Software Solutions, there was no polished office, no investor backing and no large corporate structure behind the business. There was simply an empty garage, a handful of developers and a founder convinced that software…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (360+ words) Vodacom Group has completed the acquisition of an additional 20% effective interest in Safaricom, lifting its holding in the Kenyan operator from about 35% to roughly 55% and handing the South African group majority control for the first time since Safaricom listed in…...

1+ week, 21+ min ago  (436+ words) A group of smaller fibre network operators (FNOs) have scored ahead of most of South Africa's established players in the latest perception survey from the Internet Service Providers' Association (Ispa), the officially recognised representative body for the country's internet industry....