News
SA: SAP to cough up R82-million more over state corruption
Germany’s SAP has been ordered to pay a further R81.5-million for its complicity in state capture corruption involving the department of water affairs ...
News
SA: Visa Appoints New Country Head for South Africa
Global payments company Visa has appointed Lineshree Moodley as its new Country Head for South Africa (SA). Lineshree will be responsible for the ...
South Africa
SA: Google Cloud Boosts Syft’s Financial Reporting Application to Scale Beyond South Africa
Google Cloud announced today a collaboration with Syft, a South African – based financial reporting application which processes significant volumes of financial data ...
News
SA: Capitec Bank Launches Prepaid Airtime & Data Offerings
South African digital banking group Capitec is disrupting the local prepaid market with the launch of Capitec Connect: a new prepaid solution for voice, data ...
News
SA: Sarb Pushes Repo Up to Pre-Covid-19 Levels
THE South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has increased the benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points to 6,25%, back to pre-Covid-19 levels – ...
News
SA: MTN Announces Appointment of New Executive for Group Legal
MTN Group has announced the appointment of Fatima Laher as Group Executive: Group Legal, effective 1 October 2022. Fatima re-joins MTN from Samsung ...
News
SA: Nedbank secures village in Ubuntuland, making it the first local bank to enter the metaverse
As part of its strategy to leverage new technology and go beyond conventional banking, Nedbank has partnered with Africarare, Africa’s first metaverse, and ...
Innovation
SA: Liquid Cloud brings Amazon Web Service (AWS) Direct Connect to business customers across Africa
This partnership will bring significant benefits to Liquid Cloud’s multinational and large enterprise customers Liquid Cloud (www.Liquid.Tech), a pan-African technology group, has announced ...
News
SA: LINX and NAPAfrica announce strategic collaboration
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has announced a strategic collaboration with African Internet Exchange Point, NAPAfrica. Both Internet Exchanges are similarly run, not ...
Regulatory
SA: Government to open up spectrum trading in South Africa
Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has published a draft policy document that has proposed allowing for the trading of radio frequency spectrum in South Africa. ...