Lesaka's first profit comes as its merchant business goes backwards
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·10 Sept 2026
About 30 people have been affected by a restructuring of Lesaka Technologies’ merchant division, and the dual-listed fintech will not rule out further job losses as it folds four acquired...
South Africa's electric car floodgates are opening
TechCentralby William Kelly·10 Sept 2026
Much has been written about how miserable electric vehicle sales have been in South Africa. Car makers evidently think that is about to change.
SAPS wants to deploy AI bodycams with facial recognition
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·10 Sept 2026
The body-worn cameras the South African Police Service (SAPS) wants to strap to its officers must be able to conduct facial recognition, according to tender documents the State IT Agency (Sita)...
How much Apple's iPhone Duo will cost in South Africa
TechCentralby Staff Reporter·9 Sept 2026
Apple on Wednesday unveiled a foldable called iPhone Duo, introducing the biggest change in years in the company’s flagship product.
Reserve Bank says its approach to stablecoins is still unsettled
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·9 Sept 2026
The South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) says its approach to stablecoins has not been settled, in its first response to the public campaign launched on Wednesday, 9 September by South Africa’s...
End of an era for South Africa's payments system
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·9 Sept 2026
South Africa’s banks have lost the body through which they collectively governed the national payment system.
Meta's new AI agent can spend your money on your behalf
TechCentralby Agency Staff·9 Sept 2026
Meta has begun rolling out a long-touted AI assistant that can autonomously send e-mails, sell a car and book travel on a person’s behalf, despite internal concerns that the technology mismanages...
Can an online school produce a scientist? CambriLearn has an independent answer
TechCentralby CambriLearn·9 Sept 2026
Three CambriLearn students entered South Africa’s largest school science competition in August. All three came back with medals, from judging panels the school played no part in appointing.
A petaflop on a desk - rethinking AI infrastructure for South Africa
TechCentralby Altron Arrow·9 Sept 2026
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 means...
Coalition leads public revolt against treasury's crypto draft
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·9 Sept 2026
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...
Vodacom recruits former JSE chief as chair succession begins
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·8 Sept 2026
Vodacom Group has appointed former JSE CEO Leila Fourie to its board as an alternate director to chairman Saki Macozoma, with effect from 9 October 2026.
Shoprite's CTO is thinking of a future where new recruits arrive with their own AI agents
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·8 Sept 2026
About 12 000 Shoprite Group employees are using generative AI tools, and the retailer has built its own platform to route their requests to whichever model can handle them most effectively and...
How dual-source technology is changing laser engraving
TechCentralby MaxLaser·8 Sept 2026
For years, choosing a laser machine has largely meant choosing the material a business wants to work with. CO₂ lasers handle non-metals such as wood, acrylic, leather, rubber and MDF.
Why SA homes need better Wi-Fi, not faster internet
TechCentralby Vox·8 Sept 2026
You’ve just upgraded your fibre and excitedly run a speed test. You want that screenshot for the ‘gram. 498Mbit/s strong? Nice. Now for some gaming — but Fifa lags.
Most enterprises don't have an identity strategy - they have a patchwork
TechCentralby Contactable·7 Sept 2026
No enterprise set out to build a patchwork. Each one built responses, with the best tools available at the time. Compliance needed a know-your-customer tool. Fraud needed a fraud tool.
AI guardrails: the fastest way to move fast
TechCentralby Liquid C2·7 Sept 2026
The conventional wisdom on AI governance is that it slows you down. Lock the tools down and run everything through committee — and a competitor ships first.
How to build a security operations centre that actually works
TechCentralby Kaspersky·3 Sept 2026
Cybersecurity teams overwhelmed by alerts, critical infrastructure left unmonitored and budgets drained without results: these are some of the consequences of security operations centre (SOC)...
Paratus Uganda first to market with Starlink service
TechCentralby Paratus Group·2 Sept 2026
Paratus Uganda has become the first provider in the country to launch Starlink’s low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite service, three months after the Uganda Communications Commission granted SpaceX an...
Solid8 brings AlgoSec Horizon to Southern Africa
TechCentralby Solid8 Technologies·1 Sept 2026
AlgoSec has launched Horizon, an AI-powered platform intended to give enterprises better visibility, help them remediate risk and automate security change across multi-cloud hybrid environments...
Ren-Flex installs Africa's first HP Indigo 200K
TechCentralby Kemtek·1 Sept 2026
Ren-Flex has installed and commissioned the first HP Indigo 200K digital press anywhere in Africa, working with its technology partner Kemtek. The installation continues a pattern.
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