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Discovery is accelerating its transformation into a global healthtech player, using artificial intelligence, healthcare data and digital engagement technology to expand beyond its traditional insurance business.

AI is reshaping cybersecurity at extraordinary speed. Check Point Research is already uncovering AI-powered attacks in the wild, revealing how threat actors are operating at greater scale and with growing sophistication. As these capabilities advance, cyber defense must advance just as quickly.

Armata Cyber Security and RedRok Cyber have announced a partnership to help protect businesses across South Africa and the broader SADC region from increasing cyber threats. With attacks increasingly being carried out with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), this partnership brings enterprise-grade continuous threat exposure management to mid-sized, large and enterprise businesses at affordable costs to adapt to the rapidly evolving threat landscape.

In the South African acquiring environment, the account manager role is no longer defined by the relationship alone. Increasingly responsible for helping merchants optimise the complete payment lifecycle across authorisation, reliable settlement and reconciliation, channel expansion and chargeback exposure, it is a role that has become central to the business and its ability to handle changing customer demands and expectations. Traditionally a more reactive relationship, it is now commercially accountable and technically fluent, enhancing merchant experiences and building trust as an advisor.

While Artificial intelligence (AI) has been particularly good at answering questions, many may be wondering how else the technology could help us in our daily lives. Well, we are already starting to see the next phase of AI, where intelligence has leapt off the screen and into the physical world.

The Association of Comms and Technology (ACT) wants a five-year exemption from parts of the Competition Act so that six of South Africa's largest network operators can coordinate parts of their rural infrastructure rollout.

African organisations risk falling behind global counterparts as artificial intelligence reshapes cyber defence, warns NEC XON. The company argues that many organisations on the continent are retrofitting AI into legacy cyber security architectures instead, rather than of redesigning their environments with AI as the foundational layer. This distinction - migration versus transformation - will help determine whether African businesses can keep pace with rapidly advancing markets such as the United States.

For technology providers looking to build sustainable capacity across Africa, the continent's regulatory, commercial, infrastructure and business cultures diversity make local capability increasingly important. This is particularly true in Francophone Africa, where language and market complexity can create barriers to meaningful engagement. NEC XON is deliberately strengthening its capability in French-speaking markets, moving beyond an opportunistic approach to expansion towards building a sustained regional presence.

Outdoor Wi-Fi is no longer as simple as getting a signal outside; it has become a customer loyalty and engagement entry point, a connection that extends beyond the moment and into data, insights, and innovation, says Craig Blignaut, Wi-Fi Product Manager at Vox.

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MTN Group delivered a stronger-than-expected first half of 2026, reporting double-digit service revenue growth, improved earnings and robust cash generation as it pressed ahead with its Ambition 2030 strategy.

For much of the past decade, cloud migration was the main topic in technology discussions. Organisations were urged to shift workloads from on-premises systems to the cloud as quickly as possible. The business case was compelling: elastic scalability, faster resource provisioning, reduced dependence on physical infrastructure, improved operational agility, and accelerated digital innovation.

OEM training facility and live data centre environment enhance the IBTC talent pipeline — with Master Power Technologies and Digital Parks sponsoring a full candidate cohort for 2026

Cell C has reported further progress in its recovery, adding more than one million customers while significantly reducing its debt burden during the financial year ended 31 May 2026.

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For many years, organisations viewed cybersecurity as a simple goal: preventing attackers from entering the corporate network. Businesses invested heavily in firewalls, antivirus software, email filtering, and access controls, all meant to strengthen the edges and block threats before they caused damage.

South Africa has spent years treating fibre as the broadband finish line and wireless as a temporary arrangement until the trench reaches the gate. That hierarchy is now out of date.

There's a particular kind of pressure that comes from a technology that refuses to stand still long enough to be fully understood. Enterprise AI is currently that technology. If anything, it's setting new benchmarks in speed of change. What was considered a capable implementation six months ago has to potentially be rebuilt today, and companies taking the lead in the AI race aren't necessarily the ones moving the fastest. They are the ones that are moving carefully and with a clear understanding of what they're deploying and its measurable value over time.

Enterprise security has become significantly more complex than it was even a few years ago.

Workforce Holdings has introduced a customisable, cloud-based workforce AI processing platform to bridge the gap between traditional paper workflows and modern digital enterprise systems.

A South African healthcare technology company is strengthening its artificial intelligence offering following Healthbridge’s acquisition of Nora, an AI-powered clinical documentation platform developed by Cape Town entrepreneurs James Gordon and Robert van Biljon.

A South African-born doctor in the United States is helping push the boundaries of medical technology after leading an experimental procedure that allowed surgeons to repair a baby's serious birth defect before birth.

Stellenbosch University leads R46 million project to develop faster, more accessible tuberculosis diagnostic technology A R46 million international research project led by Stellenbosch University (SU) aims to transform tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis by combining artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chest X-ray analysis with a simple fingerstick blood test.

When One Click Costs Thousands Your Bank Account May Be Your Most Exposed Asset

African organisations averaged 3 237 cyber-attacks per week in July, against a global average of 2,336, while ransomware victims surged 87% and GenAI data exposure became an everyday enterprise risk

For years, organisations have invested heavily in firewalls, encryption, and endpoint protection to build digital fortresses to keep threats out. Yet despite these improvements, breaches continue to rise. The uncomfortable truth is that attackers have changed their focus. Alongside exploiting technical weaknesses, attackers are increasingly persuading people through phishing, impersonation scams, and social engineering tactics. Phishing emails, impersonation scams, and social engineering tactics exploit human behaviour rather than technical weaknesses. In this situation, the biggest security gap isn't in infrastructure; it's in how people think, react, and decide.

For years, MultiChoice has looked like a business caught between two worlds: too expensive to operate like a traditional pay-TV company, yet too entrenched to be dismissed as a legacy broadcaster.

The easiest way to install malware on a business network is to persuade someone inside the business to do it. Attackers don't always need to bypass the firewall or exploit a zero-day vulnerability. Sometimes, all it takes is a convincing email and a moment of misplaced confidence and trust. Thirty years of security investment have gone into hardening perimeters and strengthening systems, but almost none has gone into the instinct that opens the door from the inside. Trust has become the most pernicious attack surface in 2026, and yet it remains the least defended.

At Future of Memory and Storage 2026 (FMS 26), Sandisk will showcase how NAND innovation is powering the next phase of AI infrastructure. As larger models, longer context windows, and agentic applications drive unprecedented demand for capacity, bandwidth, and power efficiency, memory and storage are increasingly critical to AI performance and deployment at scale. Sandisk is helping customers scale AI inference with advanced NAND technologies built to keep pace with the evolving needs of data centers, cloud environments, and AI-driven workloads.

Intellehub is supporting one of South Africa's big four banks' software quality assurance capability modernisation via adoption of the QMetry platform. As financial institutions accelerate digital transformation, the demand for faster, more reliable software delivery has increased sharply. For the bank, this created an opportunity to reduce reliance on manual testing processes and improve the overall efficiency of its quality assurance (QA) function.

Cybersecurity discussions have mainly focused on defence, including stronger firewalls, tighter network controls, and better endpoint security. However, in today's world, defined by cloud use, SaaS platforms, Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, and hybrid work, those traditional defences have become less relevant. What remains consistently exposed and often ignored is identity.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is opening new opportunities for women across construction, energy and other traditionally male-dominated industries. As more work becomes centred on technology, data, and remote operations rather than physical labour, organisations can recruit from a much broader talent pool. However, expanding access to these roles is only part of the solution.

Artificial intelligence (AI) may dominate discourse in the boardroom, but chasing innovation without resilience is a strategic blind spot. AI is not a replacement for sound judgement – it only delivers value when grounded in secure, well‑governed operations that strengthen, rather than destabilise, the business.

While many businesses still view the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) primarily as a compliance obligation, the reality is that payment security has a direct impact on operational stability, customer trust and commercial resilience.

Nedbank has appointed Nikos Angelopoulos as its new group chief information officer (CIO)

South Africa's digital payments sector continues to evolve as fintech companies and traditional banks deepen collaboration to improve the speed, security and efficiency of account-to-account transactions.

With the new AI Network Firewall, Check Point is the first to deliver AI security from the physical firewall organisations already run — extending the AI Defense Plane across their network providing security teams visibility and control over AI use by employees, applications, and agents, with no new infrastructure

NEC Africa responds, expands cryptographic capabilities with Utimaco

In2IT Technologies, a global leader in IT services and consulting, has been recognised as Huawei's Network Partner of the Year at Huawei South Africa Connect 2026

Vodacom has entered a new phase of its evolution following the completion of its acquisition of a controlling stake in Kenya's Safaricom,

Nigeria's digital economy is growing rapidly, creating new opportunities for economic growth, financial inclusion, and innovation.

Artificial intelligence is on a relentless march across the computing landscape.

New partnership with the Kingrich Foundation aims to equip Ghana's youth with globally recognised prevention-first cyber security skills amid escalating AI-driven threats.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become deeply woven into every aspect of financial services,

New Brand Phishing Report reveals cybercriminals are concentrating attacks around the world's most trusted digital, social, and have now added AI platforms

A sixth consecutive year of global alliance recognition — and a zero-risk AI acceleration programme for the customers who have trusted NEC XON longest

MetroFibre has renewed its longstanding sponsorship of the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), funding critical work to protect South Africa's cheetahs.

Traditional password-based authentication is no longer sufficient as a standalone control for protecting business systems

For years, cybersecurity strategies focused on protecting centralised environments such as data centres and corporate networks, and, more recently, the cloud. However, the rapid growth of edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and distributed digital infrastructure is changing this landscape.

South Africa's telecoms sector has a stock excuse it reaches for whenever a powerful player wants to do something anticompetitive, and it never seems to wear out: we're doing this for the underserved communities

For years, cybersecurity strategies have focused on a single goal: keeping attackers out.

Sophisticated attacks are specifically engineered to bypass individual security tools, and companies absorbing the damage are those who have confused procurement with protection, says Richard Frost, Head of Technology Solutions and Consulting at Armata Cyber Security

French telecommunications billionaire Xavier Niel has become Vodafone's largest shareholder after acquiring a 16% stake in the company in a deal worth approximately R108 billion.

Woolworths is introducing an artificial intelligence-powered digital assistant aimed at simplifying meal planning and grocery shopping, marking another step in the retailer's broader investment in customer-facing AI technology.

The modern workplace extends beyond traditional office walls

eMedia has entered into a content licensing agreement with Netflix that will see selected programming from its free-to-air television portfolio distributed on the streaming platform across Africa

Partnership combines NEC XON's ICT Integration expertise with PowerX's AI-Driven Energy Management Platform to deliver Integrated solutions for Africa's Telecommunications Sector

Information security, privacy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance are often treated as separate disciplines, but, in practice, they are closely linked.

Artificial intelligence is transforming customer service at unprecedented speed.

As organisations move from transactional customer interactions to continuous, integrated engagement, the way they make technology decisions must evolve too.