Absa is moving cash out of its branches
TechCentralby Staff Reporter·1 Oct 2026
Absa is scaling back over-the-counter cash services in its South African branches. Teller cash will remain available only at “selected branches”, as the bank pushes routine transactions to ATMs...
Home affairs pulls the plug on the green ID book
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·1 Oct 2026
South Africa’s green ID book will cease to be a valid form of identification on 31 March 2028, home affairs minister Leon Schreiber said on Thursday, with the department set to stop producing the...
How Cell C shaped Blu Label's executive pay
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·1 Oct 2026
Blu Label Unlimited Group’s highest earner took home R36.5-million in the year to May, about 470 times the R77 400 earned by its lowest-paid permanent employee, according to pay-gap disclosures now...
Huawei's Mate 90 bets on 3D chip design to get around US curbs
TechCentralby Agency Staff·1 Oct 2026
Huawei Technologies unveiled its Mate 90 smartphone series on Thursday, betting on its in-house operating system and a redesigned chip architecture to boost performance in the face of US curbs on...
BMW restructuring plan bets on AI and new models
TechCentralby Agency Staff·1 Oct 2026
BMW has set out a restructuring plan on Wednesday centred on AI, management cuts and two new model launches as the German luxury automaker seeks to restore investor confidence after a string of...
A shrinking JSE goes hunting for tech SMEs
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·30 Sept 2026
The JSE and government’s Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) have launched a four-month pilot to prepare 10 small and medium-sized technology enterprises to raise capital – without giving them...
Apple's next big category is the smart home - and it has a launch date
TechCentralby Agency Staff·30 Sept 2026
Apple plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market on 13 October with a new hub code-named J490, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
MTN Uganda and Huawei bring LinkHome to the MyMTN app
TechCentralby Huawei South Africa·30 Sept 2026
MTN Uganda has partnered with Huawei to improve the home broadband experience through LinkHome, a smart home management application now fully integrated into the MyMTN app.
Africa's internet bridge to the US gets an upgrade
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·30 Sept 2026
Angola Cables will upgrade the two subsea cables that link Africa with Brazil and the US, using equipment from US networking group Ciena, the companies said on Tuesday.
How AI voice reduces cost and improves performance in South African contact centres
TechCentralby 1Stream·30 Sept 2026
The contact centre has become the most expensive place to answer a simple question. A customer calls to check the status of an order, confirm a balance or reschedule a delivery.
The case for regulating cybersecurity service providers in Africa
TechCentralby CyberM8·30 Sept 2026
You hire a cybersecurity company to protect your organisation. You give its team access to your networks, systems, security architecture and, in some cases, highly sensitive information.
Why school fees keep rising faster than inflation
TechCentralby CambriLearn·30 Sept 2026
On 4 September, the Competition Commission published its third Cost of Living Report. Between January 2020 and July 2026, public primary school fees rose 46% and public secondary fees 51%, against...
Capitec's non-bank bet is paying off, big time
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·30 Sept 2026
Capitec’s fintech business – value-added services including prepaid airtime, data, electricity and money transfers, plus its Capitec Connect mobile service – contributed R2.7-billion to group...
Mustek profit soars even as gross margin shrinks
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·30 Sept 2026
Mustek’s earnings nearly tripled in the year to end-June 2026, but the JSE-listed technology distributor made less gross profit from selling its products than it did a year earlier, and the cash...
OpenAI launches always-on dots agents to take on Meta
TechCentralby Agency Staff·30 Sept 2026
OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled always-on agents called “dots” that chase user goals across apps on their own, deepening its push into the lucrative enterprise market and pitting it against Meta in the...
Ternus plots a faster, leaner Apple
TechCentralby Agency Staff·30 Sept 2026
Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, is weighing a broad overhaul of the iPhone maker aimed at sharpening its engineering focus, introducing products more frequently and creating a leaner organisation...
Should South Africa ban ransomware payments?
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·29 Sept 2026
Richard Firth has paid a ransom and seen what it bought. Now the MIP Holdings CEO wants South Africa to outlaw such payments.
MTN loses bid to halt US Anti-Terrorism Act claims
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·29 Sept 2026
MTN Group has lost a bid to overturn, or immediately appeal, a US court ruling allowing claims against it under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) to proceed, clearing the way for two of the cases to...
South Africa now hosts world's fourth-largest Comic Con
TechCentralby Tadek Szutowicz·29 Sept 2026
When Comic Con Africa launched in 2018, organisers faced an immediate surge in local demand for a large-scale pop culture and gaming convention.
Ease of doing business takes centre stage at GEC+Africa
TechCentralby GEC+Africa·29 Sept 2026
The need to make it easier to start, operate and grow a business in South Africa took centre stage on the second and final day of the 2026 Global Entrepreneurship Congress Africa (GEC+Africa), with...
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