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Global Tier 1 carrier Cogent Communications is now live at Digital Parks Africa’s (DPA) Samrand data centre, giving customers direct access to one of the world’s largest Internet Protocol (IP) backbone networks from within the facility. As a Tier 1 Internet Service Provider (ISP), Cogent owns and operates a global network enabling high performance and direct connections to data centres and end user locations, only exchanging traffic with other Tier 1 ISPs where necessary and without the need to buy internet service from any other provider. For DPA customers, this means closer proximity to global content and fewer intermediary networks…

DStv, the market leader in South African entertainment, has partnered with Discovery Bank as part of its Discovery Miles rewards programme. “Partnering with Discovery to give our customers such great value is an obvious choice,” says Willington Ngwepe, CEO of MultiChoice, the broadcasting services licensee in South Africa. “DStv customers who bank with Discovery can earn up to 50% of their DStv package payment back in Discovery Miles, while they tune in for our world-class content line-up, which includes the start of the FIFA World Cup 2026™ in June.” This comes after DStv announced its lowest-ever HD Single View decoder deals as part of its “Everything can wait” FIFA World Cup 2026™ campaign: R299 for the decoder only or R499 including installation. DStv Stream…

The Information Regulator has not authorised any certification scheme — businesses relying on third-party “Certified” badges are left exposed to significant legal and financial risk. ATG Digital, a provider of access control and data compliance solutions for gated environments, has published an alert to South African organisations. It warns about a growing and potentially costly misconception: that terms like “POPIA Certified” and similar certificates do not confer any legal protection under the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA). The Information Regulator of South Africa—the only body empowered to monitor and enforce POPIA compliance—has not created, endorsed, or authorised any…

Maziv, the parent company of Vumatel, welcomes the decision by ICASA to approve the licence transfer application of Herotel. This follows the approval of Vumatel’s (Vuma) acquisition of Herotel by the Competition Tribunal in December last year. The ICASA approval marks a definitive step forward in strengthening South Africa’s fibre ecosystem and accelerating the collective mission of building connected lives, communities, and societies. As the pioneer of open access offering high-speed fibre-to-the-home in South Africa, Vuma has revolutionised digital access by reaching over two million homes. By combining Vuma’s national scale and metropolitan expertise with Herotel’s specialised rural and underserved…

A new generation of South African innovators is building technology solutions that address the country’s most pressing social and economic challenges. The top finalists in the Huawei Developer Competition Code4Mzansi have developed solutions rooted in the realities people move through every day, children buying food from spaza shops, households stretching social grants, young people locked out of work experience, patients struggling to access healthcare, communities dealing with electricity theft, and small businesses trying to survive and grow. The competition attracted 1,041 participants in South Africa, the highest number in any Huawei Cloud Developer Competition market globally. South Africa also recorded…

Discovery Bank today announced a major expansion of its AI-powered’ banking capabilities, alongside new security and servicing enhancements, streamlined access to life insurance, and a rewards partnership with DStv, as it continues to build a single, intelligent digital banking platform for everyday spending, protection and rewards. Hylton Kallner, CEO of Discovery Bank, says, “We are entering the next phase in Discovery Bank as we deepen the integration of banking, protection, rewards and investments into a single digital experience. At its core, this is about building a platform that works more intelligently for our clients – connecting payments, data and security…

Salesforce hosted an intimate media roundtable at WeWork Oxford Road in Rosebank for a candid, unvarnished conversation about AI’s mounting impact on the South African workforce. Bringing together senior Salesforce leaders and an enterprise change practitioner from Standard Bank Group, the session produced a collective message that left little room for equivocation: AI is already reshaping how work is designed, delivered, and measured — and South African organisations cannot afford to wait. Why localisation is everything Opening the discussion, Linda Saunders, Country Manager & Snr. Director Solution Engineering Africa at Salesforce, grounded the conversation in a reality specific to the…

Lulapay has partnered with leading cloud distributer Cloud on Demand to introduce integrated cash flow flexibility for ICT resellers and managed service providers across South Africa. Lulapay is a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) offering powered by Lula.  Through the partnership, qualifying Cloud on Demand partners will now have access to structured 30-day payment flexibility, helping them better align supplier payments with customer billing cycles, and easing one of the most persistent pressures facing profitable technology SMEs. Cloud on Demand is a major player in South Africa’s ICT ecosystem, enabling resellers to procure and manage subscription-based cloud and software solutions at scale. But…

One month after launching into Exclusive Books stores across South Africa, FinMaster, the locally created board game teaching families, teenagers and young adults how to think differently about money, has recorded its strongest end-user sales month to date. For co-founders Elijah Djan and Danei Rall, the milestone is more than a commercial result. It’s the latest chapter in a story that began with a rough prototype made from a pizza box, a university challenge to solve a problem made worse by Covid, and a deeply personal belief that financial literacy should not be reserved for people who grow up around…

New York Stock Exchange-listed Energy Vault Holdings, a global leader in sustainable, grid-scale energy storage and AI compute infrastructure solutions, today announced a Strategic Development Agreement with Eskom, South Africa’s state-owned electricity utility, to deploy a long-duration gravity energy storage system (GESS). The first GESS plant will be built at Eskom’s Hendrina Power Station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, one of the utility’s oldest operating stations. The system is expected to provide 25MW of capacity with four hours of storage, equivalent to 100MWh, and is designed to be fully scalable, up to 4GW. This landmark agreement establishes a partnership between the…